1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2003-1

USN-2003-1: Glance vulnerability

Publication date

23 October 2013

Overview

Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network under certain circumstances.

Releases

Packages

  • glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Stuart McLaren discovered that Glance did not properly enforce the
‘download_image’ policy for cached images. An authenticated user could
exploit this to obtain sensitive information in an image protected by this
setting.

Stuart McLaren discovered that Glance did not properly enforce the
‘download_image’ policy for cached images. An authenticated user could
exploit this to obtain sensitive information in an image protected by this
setting.

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
13.04 raring python-glance –  1:2013.1.3-0ubuntu1.1
12.10 quantal python-glance –  2012.2.4-0ubuntu1.1

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