USN-2322-1: OpenStack Glance vulnerability

Publication date

21 August 2014

Overview

OpenStack Glance could be made to stop serving requests.

Releases


Packages

  • glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Thomas Leaman and Stuart McLaren discovered that OpenStack Glance did not
properly honor the image_size_cap configuration option. A remote
authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via
disk consumption.

Thomas Leaman and Stuart McLaren discovered that OpenStack Glance did not
properly honor the image_size_cap configuration option. A remote
authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via
disk consumption.

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
14.04 trusty glance-common –  1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

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