Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nova vulnerabilities (USN-1497-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59845

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)

Padraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2012-3361).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python-nova package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1497-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59845

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1497-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3360, CVE-2012-3361

USN: 1497-1