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Ubuntu: USN-3449-1 (CVE-2015-8749): OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3449-1 (CVE-2015-8749): OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2017
Modified
12/23/2024

Description

The volume_utils._parse_volume_info function in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty) includes the connection_info dictionary in the StorageError message when using the Xen backend, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by reading log files or other unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-nova

References

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