Security update for openstack-nova

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1448-1
Rating: low
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-18191 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2017-18191 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for openstack-nova fixes the following bugs and security issues:

The following security-issue has been fixed:

  • CVE-2017-18191: libvirt: Block swap volume attempts with encrypted volumes. (bsc#1081685)

Additionally, the following bugs have been fixed:

  • Set TasksMax to infinity for openstack-nova-compute. (bsc#1070603)
  • Fix qemu-img convert image incompatability in alpine linux. (bsc#1073933)
  • Update openstack-nova-placement-api handling.
  • Remove the systemd .service file. the placement-api should run in a real WSGI container.
  • Add a apache vhost sample configuration.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-988=1

Package List:

  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 (noarch)
    • openstack-nova-serialproxy-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-conductor-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-doc-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-cert-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-cells-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-vncproxy-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-novncproxy-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-api-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-compute-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • python-nova-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-consoleauth-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-placement-api-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-scheduler-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1
    • openstack-nova-console-14.0.11~dev13-4.22.1

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