Executive Summary

Summary
Title OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3449-1 First vendor Publication 2017-10-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-10-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Nova.

Software Description: - nova: OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details:

George Shuklin discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled the migration process. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3241)

George Shuklin and Tushar Patil discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled deleting instances. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume disk resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3280)

It was discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly limited qemu-img calls. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5162)

Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled snapshots. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-7548)

Sreekumar S. and Suntao discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly applied security group changes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended restriction changes by leveraging an instance that was running when the change was made. (CVE-2015-7713)

Matt Riedemann discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from log files. (CVE-2015-8749)

Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled certain qcow2 headers. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2016-2140)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
python-nova 1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3449-1
CVE-2015-3241, CVE-2015-3280, CVE-2015-5162, CVE-2015-7548,
CVE-2015-7713, CVE-2015-8749, CVE-2016-2140

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3449-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
43 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
43 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
14 % CWE-254 Security Features

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 5
Application 36

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3449-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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