Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1050 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2014-08-13
Updated:
2014-08-13

RHSA-2014:1050 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: openstack-ceilometer security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

Updated OpenStack Telemetry packages that fix one security issue and one
bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

Description

OpenStack Telemetry (ceilometer) collects customer usage data for metering
purposes. Telemetry implements bus listener, push, and polling agents for
data collection; this data is stored in a database and presented via the
REST API. In addition, Telemetry's extensible design means it can be
optionally extended to gather customized data sets.

It was found that authentication tokens were not properly sanitized from
the message queue by the notifier middleware. An attacker with read access
to the message queue could possibly use this flaw to intercept an
authentication token and gain elevated privileges. Note that all services
using the notifier middleware configured after the auth_token middleware
pipeline were affected. (CVE-2014-4615)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • An incompatibility issue was found with the recent update of the

python-qpid package. This caused several OpenStack services, including
OpenStack Telemetry, to malfunction. By updating the RPC code, this issue
is now resolved. (BZ#1116462)

All OpenStack Telemetry users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which correct these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenStack 4.0 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1112945 - CVE-2014-4615 pycadf: token leak to message queue
  • BZ - 1116462 - RHOSP 4 is incompatible with python-qpid >= 0.18-11

Red Hat OpenStack 4.0

SRPM
openstack-ceilometer-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.src.rpm SHA-256: a6df79871a218f22f563b0a47545595dd3777308144cb27c4e87b73090f0a313
x86_64
openstack-ceilometer-alarm-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 5258210c115c40dec1e7cbfd2747f77d9974f33200a10fb62b1134b7cc964972
openstack-ceilometer-api-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 971c0b6ac81ff634b43ff53d2dbb4232b0058c16f77f6716a78e4bc60e8b33e5
openstack-ceilometer-central-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ece088fb03df3fd3b968539f23271466d8654dea5de6439848bada3e9a379b2a
openstack-ceilometer-collector-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 07e65b8a08d6729abbbf4eb803d6c01d729b7f26af6a1eaa246f3ebe44facdc9
openstack-ceilometer-common-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e696d86fce743c501a16f67bb9f035271c2b0caae68a37ccf22f8675567cd4c8
openstack-ceilometer-compute-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2dbe5ab011dc70f50e6c6d7f59f92f3477e75b1764b53f6809eefe2245b9bb8b
python-ceilometer-2013.2.3-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 92443f535a5aa83b42e2bdb2b28ddd1c627a1930cda8793ecff77ce91506b020

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