Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nova vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1501-1 First vendor Publication 2012-07-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-07-11
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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Nova could be made to not respond if passed specially crafted input.

Software Description: - nova: OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details:

Dan Prince discovered that the Nova scheduler, when using DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter, would make repeated database instance lookup calls based on passed scheduler hints. An authenticated attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
python-nova 2012.1+stable~20120612-3ee026e-0ubuntu1.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1501-1
CVE-2012-3371

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2012.1+stable~20120612-3ee026e-0ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17038
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17038
Title: USN-1501-1 -- nova vulnerability
Description: Nova could be made to not respond if passed specially crafted input.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1501-1
CVE-2012-3371
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): nova
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-10939
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_10939_openstack-nova_fc17.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-11756
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_11756_openstack-nova_fc17.nasl
2012-07-16 Name : Ubuntu Update for nova USN-1501-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1501_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-07-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-10939.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-07-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1501-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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