An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16.1 (Train).

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

OpenStack Compute (codename Nova) is open source software designed
to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines,creating a
redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software,
control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running
instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and
projects.OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor
agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware
configurations and seven major hypervisors.

Security Fix(es):

* Regression VMDK/qcow arbitrary file access (CVE-2024-40767)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.

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CVE-2024-40767: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties (CWE-552)