RHSA-2019:0567 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-octavia is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

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

The OpenStack Load Balancing service (openstack-octavia) provides a Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) version 2 implementation for Red Hat OpenStack platform director based installations.

Security Fix(es):

• openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files (CVE-2018-16856)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• This feature is "community support" and not supported by Red Hat per RHOSP SLA. (BZ#1671022)

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 for IBM Power 13 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1547478 - Test Octavia with OVN
• BZ - 1571636 - Backports of general improvements to Octavia
• BZ - 1582145 - Listener's "operating status" is not transitioning to ONLINE even when pool and members are configured for it.
• BZ - 1607276 - All existing amphora instances are deleting when RabbitMQ is down
• BZ - 1649165 - CVE-2018-16856 openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files
• BZ - 1669078 - Add support for configuring Octavia LB timeouts in OSP 13
• BZ - 1670170 - Rebase openstack-octavia to 2.0.3
• BZ - 1672370 - flake8 fail: code over-indentation

CVEs

• CVE-2018-16856

References

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