[USN-2703-1] Cinder vulnerability

[Seth Arnold]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2703-1
August 06, 2015

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

- Ubuntu 15.04

Summary:

Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by an
authenticated user.

Software Description:
- cinder: OpenStack storage service

Details:

Bastian Blank discovered that Cinder guessed image formats based on
untrusted data. An attacker could use this to read arbitrary files from
the Cinder host.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  python-cinder                   1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart cinder to make all the
necessary changes.

References:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2703-1
  CVE-2015-1851

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

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