USN-1497-1: Nova vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1497-1
3rd July, 2012
nova vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
Summary
Nova could be made to overwrite or corrupt arbitrary files in the compute host file system.
Software description
- nova - OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure
Details
Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to
setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject
files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running
Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This
issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)
Pádraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt
arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2012-3361)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
- python-nova 2012.1+stable~20120612-3ee026e-0ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 11.10:
- python-nova 2011.3-0ubuntu6.9
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.