USN-2703-1: Cinder vulnerability

6 August 2015

Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by an authenticated user.

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Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

Bastian Blank discovered that Cinder guessed image formats based on
untrusted data. An attacker could use this to read arbitrary files from
the Cinder host.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04

After a standard system update you need to restart cinder to make all the
necessary changes.

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