{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "namespace": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/", "text": "Moderate" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "Updated OpenStack Orchestration packages that fix one security issue and\ntwo bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack\nPlatform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6.\n\nRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security\nimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give\ndetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the\nCVE links in the References section.", "title": "Topic" }, { "category": "general", "text": "OpenStack Orchestration (heat) is a template-driven engine used to specify\nand deploy configurations for Compute, Storage, and OpenStack Networking.\nIt can also be used to automate post-deployment actions, which in turn\nallows automated provisioning of infrastructure, services, and\napplications. Orchestration can also be integrated with Telemetry alarms to\nimplement auto-scaling for certain infrastructure resources.\n\nA vulnerability was discovered in the OpenStack Orchestration \nservice (heat), where a specially formatted template could be used to\ntrick the heat-engine service into opening a local file. Although the\nfile contents are never disclosed to the end user, an OpenStack-\nauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service\nor determine whether a given file name is present on the server.\n(CVE-2015-5295)\n\nThis issue was discovered by Steven Hardy of Red Hat.", "title": "Details" }, { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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