Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2703-1

USN-2703-1: Cinder vulnerability

Publication date

6 August 2015

Overview

Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by an authenticated user.

Releases

15.04

Packages

cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

Bastian Blank discovered that Cinder guessed image formats based on
untrusted data. An attacker could use this to read arbitrary files from
the Cinder host.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart cinder to 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
15.04 vivid	python-cinder – 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

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References

CVE-2015-1851

CVE-2015-1851