USN-1033-1: Eucalyptus vulnerability
16 December 2010
eucalyptus vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.10
Summary
Unauthenticated users could reset passwords without email confirmation.
Software Description
- eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture
Details
It was discovered that Eucalyptus did not verify password resets from the Admin UI correctly. An unauthenticated remote attacker could issue password reset requests to gain admin privileges in the Eucalyptus environment.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 10.10
- eucalyptus-java-common - 2.0+bzr1241-0ubuntu4.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.