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USN-5835-2: OpenStack Glance vulnerability

31 January 2023

OpenStack Glance could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou
discovered that OpenStack Glance incorrectly handled VMDK image processing.
An authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK
flat image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive
information.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-5835-1: python3-cinder, cinder-api, cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common, cinder-scheduler, cinder-backup
  • USN-5835-3: nova-compute-libvirt, nova-compute-xen, nova-serialproxy, nova-cells, nova-scheduler, python3-nova, nova-api, nova-novncproxy, nova-compute, nova-api-os-compute, nova-ajax-console-proxy, nova-api-metadata, nova-volume, nova-api-os-volume, nova-spiceproxy, nova-doc, nova-compute-ironic, nova-compute-kvm, nova-compute-lxc, nova-common, nova, nova-compute-qemu, nova-compute-vmware, nova-conductor
  • USN-5835-4: python3-cinder, cinder-api, cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common, cinder-scheduler, python-cinder, cinder-backup
  • USN-5835-5: nova-compute-libvirt, nova-compute-xen, python-nova, nova-serialproxy, nova-cells, nova-scheduler, nova-api, nova-novncproxy, nova-compute, nova-api-os-compute, nova-ajax-console-proxy, nova-console, nova-api-metadata, nova-volume, nova-api-os-volume, nova-spiceproxy, nova-doc, nova-placement-api, nova-xvpvncproxy, nova-compute-kvm, nova-consoleauth, nova-compute-lxc, nova-network, nova-common, nova, nova-compute-qemu, nova-compute-vmware, nova-conductor
  • USN-6882-2: python3-cinder, cinder-api, cinder, cinder-volume, cinder-common, cinder-scheduler, cinder-backup