USN-1715-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability
5 February 2013
Keystone could be made to fill server disks with error messages.
Releases
Packages
- keystone - OpenStack identity service
Details
Dan Prince discovered that Keystone did not properly perform input
validation when handling certain error conditions. An unauthenticated user
could exploit this to cause a denial of service in Keystone API servers via
disk space exhaustion.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.