1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1497-1

USN-1497-1: Nova vulnerabilities

Publication date

3 July 2012

Overview

Nova could be made to overwrite or corrupt arbitrary files in the compute host file system.

Releases

Packages

  • nova - OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details

Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to
setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject
files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running
Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This
issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)

Pádraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt
arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2012-3361)

Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to
setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject
files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running
Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This
issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)

Pádraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt
arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2012-3361)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
12.04 precise python-nova –  2012.1+stable~20120612-3ee026e-0ubuntu1.1
11.10 oneiric python-nova –  2011.3-0ubuntu6.9

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