RHSA-2022:0983 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16.1 (Train).

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

OpenStack Compute (codename Nova) is open source software designed
to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a
redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software,
control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running
instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and
projects.OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor
agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware
configurations and seven major hypervisors.

Security Fix(es):

• novnc allows open redirection (CVE-2021-3654)

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 16.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1961439 - CVE-2021-3654 openstack-nova: novnc allows open redirection
• BZ - 1977667 - Compute service DOWN after FFU from RHOSP13 to 16.1 because service version is still 30.
• BZ - 1999588 - [OSP 16.1.8] Provide a workaround option and/or nova-manage command to force the refresh of connection_info during a hard reboot
• BZ - 2002773 - [OSP16.1] Nova is out of sync with ironic as hypervisor list in nova does not agree with ironic list after reboot of the nodes
• BZ - 2003258 - [OSP16.1] vm creation interrupted by cluster degradation results in required nova cell information being unpopulated.
• BZ - 2020313 - If an upper case mac address is used in a heat template, live migration won't work in nova

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3654

References

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