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USN-5835-5: Nova vulnerability

9 February 2023

Nova could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • nova - OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details

USN-5835-3 fixed vulnerabilities in Nova. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou
discovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An
authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat
image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive
information.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-5835-1: cinder-api, cinder-scheduler, cinder, cinder-backup, python3-cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common
  • USN-5835-2: glance-api, python-glance-doc, glance-common, glance, python3-glance
  • USN-5835-3: nova-scheduler, nova-compute-lxc, nova, nova-compute-vmware, nova-common, nova-compute-libvirt, nova-compute, nova-api-os-compute, nova-cells, nova-serialproxy, python3-nova, nova-compute-kvm, nova-spiceproxy, nova-ajax-console-proxy, nova-compute-qemu, nova-doc, nova-api-metadata, nova-volume, nova-api-os-volume, nova-compute-xen, nova-conductor, nova-compute-ironic, nova-novncproxy, nova-api
  • USN-5835-4: cinder-api, cinder-scheduler, cinder, cinder-backup, python3-cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common, python-cinder
  • USN-6882-2: cinder-api, cinder-scheduler, cinder, cinder-backup, python3-cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common