Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2193-1

USN-2193-1: OpenStack Glance vulnerability

Publication date

5 May 2014

Overview

OpenStack Glance could be made to run programs as the glance user if it processed a specially crafted request.

Releases

13.10

Packages

glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Paul McMillan discovered that the Sheepdog backend in OpenStack Glance did
not properly handle untrusted input. A remote authenticated attacker
exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the glance user.

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
13.10 saucy	python-glance – 1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.1

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References

CVE-2014-0162

CVE-2014-0162