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Posted on 10 December 2012
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: openstack-glance security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:1558-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1558.html
Issue date: 2012-12-10
CVE Names: CVE-2012-4573
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1. Summary:
Updated openstack-glance packages that fix multiple bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Essex.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
RHOS Essex Release - noarch
3. Description:
The openstack-glance packages allows virtual machine images to be
discovered, registered and retrieved. It also includes a RESTful API to
provide these services to other applications.
The openstack-glance packages have been upgraded to upstream version
2012.1.2, which provide a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the
previous version.
A flaw in Keystone allowed an attacker with access to the web and network
interfaces to delete arbitrary, non-protected images from Glance servers.
(CVE-2012-4573)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this
issue. Upstream acknowledges Gabe Westmaas as the original reporter of
CVE-2012-4573.
All users of openstack-glance are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements. After installing
the updated packages, the Glance services (openstack-glance-api and
openstack-glance-registry) will be restarted automatically.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
872302 - CVE-2012-4573 OpenStack: Glance Authentication bypass for image deletion
6. Package List:
RHOS Essex Release:
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHOS/SRPMS/openstack-glance-2012.1.2-2.el6.src.rpm
noarch:
openstack-glance-2012.1.2-2.el6.noarch.rpm
openstack-glance-doc-2012.1.2-2.el6.noarch.rpm
python-glance-2012.1.2-2.el6.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package
7. References:
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-4573.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
