RHSA-2024:4274 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 17.1 (Wallaby).

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

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 17.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2024-32498

References

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