RHSA-2023:1017 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-glance is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 17.0 (Wallaby).

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 Image Service (code-named Glance) provides
discovery,registration, and delivery services for virtual disk images. The
Image Service API server provides a standard REST interface for querying
information about virtual disk images stored in a variety of back-end
stores, including OpenStack Object Storage. Clients can register new
virtual disk images with the Image Service, query for information on
publicly available disk images, and use the Image Service's client library
for streaming virtual disk images.

Security Fix(es):

• Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor

(CVE-2022-47951)

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 17 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2161812 - CVE-2022-47951 openstack: Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor

CVEs

• CVE-2022-47951

References

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