RHSA-2024:4273 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, and 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 Critical. 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

Cinder is the replacement of nova-volume in Folsom and beyond, use d for
block storage.

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.

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):

• CVE-2024-32498 OpenStack: malicious qcow2/vmdk images

(CVE-2024-32498)

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
• Cinderlib 16.2 x86_64
• Cinderlib for IBM Power LE 16.2 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2278663 - CVE-2024-32498 OpenStack: malicious qcow2/vmdk images

CVEs

• CVE-2024-32498

References

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