RHSA-2023:1948 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16.2 (Train).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Low. 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):

• Compute service fails to restart if the vnic_type of a bound port changed

from direct to macvtap (CVE-2022-37394)

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 16.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2051631 - Fresh deployment - nova api calls timing out
• BZ - 2075467 - Ensure that at startup nova-compute cleans up unavailable PCI devices from the DB that are not reported from the hypervisor
• BZ - 2084239 - nova host-evacuation returns erroneous pci addresses and an error: Unable to correlate PCI slot
• BZ - 2088676 - [OSP16.2] while live-migrating many instances concurrently, libvirt sometimes return internal error: migration was active, but no RAM info was set
• BZ - 2117333 - CVE-2022-37394 openstack-nova: Compute service fails to restart if the vnic_type of a bound port changed from direct to macvtap
• BZ - 2138381 - [OSP 16.2] Unacceptable CPU info: CPU doesn't have compatibility
• BZ - 2140992 - 16.2 - Update instance host and task state when post live migration fails
• BZ - 2151410 - [OSP16.2] Invalid bdm record is left when cinder api call to delete a volume attachment times out
• BZ - 2158181 - nova-compute container won't start when specifying x86_Icelake-Server CPU model
• BZ - 2164970 - Backport "Improving logging at '_allocate_mdevs'." to 16.2

CVEs

• CVE-2022-37394

References

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