Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1305-1
13th December, 2011
nova vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 11.10
Summary
Nova could be made to overwrite files.
Software description
- nova - OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure
Details
David Black discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation
during image registration. An attacker could exploit this by registering a
crafted image using the EC2 API or S3/RegisterImage method and overwrite
files as the nova user.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 11.10:
- python-nova 2011.3-0ubuntu6.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.