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[RHSA-2017:0300-01] Moderate: python-oslo-middleware security update

Posted on 23 February 2017
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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: python-oslo-middleware security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0300-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0300.html
Issue date: 2017-02-22
CVE Names: CVE-2017-2592
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1. Summary:

An update for python-oslo-middleware is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10.0 (Newton).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - noarch

3. Description:

The OpenStack Oslo Middleware library provides components that can be
injected into WSGI pipelines to intercept request and response flows. The
base class can be enhanced with functionality like adding or updating HTTP
headers, or to offer support for limiting size or connections.

Security Fix(es):

* An information-disclosure flaw was found in oslo.middleware. Software
using the CatchError class could include sensitive values in a traceback's
error message. Remote users could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive
information from OpenStack component error logs (for example, keystone
tokens). (CVE-2017-2592)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Divya K Konoor (IBM) as the original reporter.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1414698 - CVE-2017-2592 python-oslo-middleware: CatchErrors leaks sensitive values into error logs

6. Package List:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:

Source:
python-oslo-middleware-3.19.0-1.2.el7ost.src.rpm

noarch:
python-oslo-middleware-3.19.0-1.2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
python-oslo-middleware-lang-3.19.0-1.2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
python-oslo-middleware-tests-3.19.0-1.2.el7ost.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/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2592
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.

 

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