RHSA-2017:0200 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for puppet-swift is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton).

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

Description

puppet-swift is the Puppet module used by Red Hat OpenStack Platform director to install OpenStack Object Storage (swift).

Security Fix(es):

• An information-disclosure flaw was discovered in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's installation of Object Storage (swift). During installation, the Puppet script responsible for deploying the service incorrectly removes and recreates the proxy-server.conf file with world-readable permissions. (CVE-2016-9590)

Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 10 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1410293 - CVE-2016-9590 puppet-swift: installs config file with world readable permissions

CVEs

• CVE-2016-9590

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate