Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-1663-1

USN-1663-1: Nova vulnerability

Publication date

12 December 2012

Overview

Nova could be made to expose sensitive information.

Releases

12.10

Packages

nova - OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details

Eric Windisch discovered that Nova did not properly clear LVM-backed images
before they were reallocated which could potentially lead to an information
leak. This issue only affected setups using libvirt LVM-backed instances.

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
12.10 quantal	python-nova – 2012.2-0ubuntu5.2

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References

CVE-2012-5625

CVE-2012-5625