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Red Hat OpenStack Folsom: RHSA-2013:0596-01 Moderate: Keystone Security

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2013
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical releases an important update for Ubuntu, addressing several vulnerabilities and improving system reliability.
Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix multiple security issues, various bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom

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/articles/11258

Summary

The openstack-keystone packages provide Keystone, a Python implementation of the OpenStack identity service API, which provides Identity, Token, Catalog, and Policy services.
The openstack-keystone packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2012.2.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#908995)
This update also fixes the following security issues:
It was found that Keystone failed to properly validate disabled user accounts, or user accounts associated with disabled tenants or domains, when Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) style credentials (credentials that are issued in the same format as standard Amazon EC2 credentials) were in use. Such users could use this flaw to access resources they should no longer have access to. (CVE-2013-0282)
A denial of service flaw was found in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser used by Keystone. If a malicious XML file were uploaded for processing, it could possibly cause Keystone to consume an excessive amount of CPU and memory. (CVE-2013-1664)
A flaw was found in the XML parser used by Keystone. If a malicious XML file were uploaded for processing, it could cause Keystone to connect to external entities, causing a large amount of system load, or allow an attacker to read files on the Keystone server that are accessible to the user running the Keystone service. (CVE-2013-1665)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nathanael Burton (National Security Agency) as the original reporter of CVE-2013-0282.
All users of openstack-keystone are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. After installing the updated packages, the Keystone service (openstack-keystone) will be restarted automatically.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0282 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1664 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1665 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

OpenStack Folsom:
Source:
noarch: openstack-keystone-2012.2.3-3.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-keystone-doc-2012.2.3-3.el6ost.noarch.rpm python-keystone-2012.2.3-3.el6ost.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


Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0596-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Issue date: 2013-03-05

Topic

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix multiple security issues,various bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat OpenStackFolsom.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack Folsom - noarch

Bugs Fixed

908995 - Keystone - Update to the latest Folsom stable release 2012.2.3

910928 - CVE-2013-0282 OpenStack Keystone: EC2-style authentication accepts disabled user/tenants

912982 - CVE-2013-1665 Python xml bindings: External entity expansion in Python XML libraries inflicts potential security flaws and DoS vulnerabilities

913808 - CVE-2013-1664 Python xml bindings: Internal entity expansion in Python XML libraries inflicts DoS vulnerabilities

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