SB2017062848 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 packages

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7466)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing responses, send by clients to Ansible server. A remote client can send a specially crafted response and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

2) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7481)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing responses for lookup() calls. A remote client can can inject unicode strings which may then be parsed by the jinja2 templating system resulting in code execution.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1599