Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nova vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1663-1 First vendor Publication 2012-12-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-12-12
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:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

Nova could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description: - nova: OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details:

Eric Windisch discovered that Nova did not properly clear LVM-backed images before they were reallocated which could potentially lead to an information leak. This issue only affected setups using libvirt LVM-backed instances.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
python-nova 2012.2-0ubuntu5.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1663-1
CVE-2012-5625

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2012.2-0ubuntu5.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17878
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17878
Title: USN-1663-1 -- nova vulnerability
Description: Nova could be made to expose sensitive information.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1663-1
CVE-2012-5625
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): nova
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for nova USN-1663-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1663_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-01-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-20462.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1663-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:01:12
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-27 21:19:23
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-27 13:19:03
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-13 00:20:06
  • First insertion