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USN-2321-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerabilities

21 August 2014

OpenStack Neutron could be made to expose sensitive information or crash.

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Releases

Packages

  • neutron - OpenStack Virtual Network Service

Details

Liping Mao discovered that OpenStack Neutron did not properly handle
requests for a large number of allowed address pairs. A remote
authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-3555)

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that OpenStack Neutron incorrectly filtered certain
tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication
tokens used in REST requests. (CVE-2014-4615)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

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

Related notices

  • USN-2311-1: python-pycadf
  • USN-2311-2: python-ceilometer, ceilometer-collector, ceilometer-common, ceilometer-agent-central, ceilometer-alarm-notifier, ceilometer-agent-compute, ceilometer-alarm-evaluator, ceilometer-api, ceilometer, ceilometer-agent-notification