Advisory Published
Updated

REDHAT-BUG-884293

First published: Wed Dec 05 2012(Updated: )

Thierry Carrez (thierry) has released information Title: Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances Reporter: Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) Products: Nova Affects: Folsom, Grizzly Description: Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling reported a vulnerability in libvirt LVM-backed instances. The physical volume content was not wiped out before being reallocated and passed to an instance, which may result in the disclosure of information from previously-allocated logical volumes. Only setups using libvirt and LVM-backed instances (libvirt_images_type=lvm) are affected. This was originally reported by Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
OpenStack Nova-LXD>=Folsom<=Grizzly

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