RHSA-2020:3704 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16 (Train).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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

OpenStack Compute (nova) launches and schedules large networks of virtual
machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform.
Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to
orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and
controlling access through users and projects.

Security Fix(es):

• Soft reboot after live-migration reverts instance to original source

domain XML (CVE-2020-17376)

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

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 16 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1869426 - CVE-2020-17376 openstack-nova: Soft reboot after live-migration reverts instance to original source domain XML

CVEs

• CVE-2020-17376

References

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