First published: Tue Jan 22 2013(Updated: )
Russel Bryant rbryant reports on behalf of the OpenStack Project: Title: Boot from volume allows access to random volumes Reporter: Phil Day (HP) Products: Nova Affects: Essex, Folsom Description: Phil Day from HP reported a vulnerability in volume attachment in nova-volume, affecting the boot-from-volume feature. By passing a specific volume ID, an authenticated user may be able to boot from a volume he doesn't own, potentially resulting in full access to that 3rd-party volume contents. Folsom setups making use of Cinder are not affected. Proposed patches: See attached patches for the Folsom and Essex series. Unless a flaw is discovered in them, these proposed patches will be merged to Nova stable/folsom and stable/essex branches on the public disclosure date.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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OpenStack Essex | ||
OpenStack Folsom | ||
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.10 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.10 |
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