Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nova vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1413-1 First vendor Publication 2012-03-29
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-03-29
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:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 11.10

Summary:

Nova log files could be made to exhaust storage resources.

Software Description: - nova: OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details:

Dan Prince discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation on the length of server names. An authenticated attacker could issue requests using long server names to exhaust the storage resources containing the Nova API log file.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
python-nova 2011.3-0ubuntu6.5

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1413-1
CVE-2012-1585

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2011.3-0ubuntu6.5

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1413-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17564
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17564
Title: USN-1413-1 -- nova vulnerability
Description: Nova log files could be made to exhaust storage resources.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1413-1
CVE-2012-1585
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 11.10
Product(s): nova
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 26

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-4889
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_4889_openstack-nova_fc17.nasl
2012-07-23 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-10418
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_10418_openstack-nova_fc16.nasl
2012-06-25 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-9425
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_9425_openstack-nova_fc16.nasl
2012-05-04 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-6365
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_6365_openstack-nova_fc16.nasl
2012-04-11 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-5026
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_5026_openstack-nova_fc16.nasl
2012-04-02 Name : Ubuntu Update for nova USN-1413-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1413_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-04-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-4889.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-04-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-5026.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-03-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1413-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:59:56
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