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title: "CVE-2015-5286\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2015-5286

Publication date 26 October 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before
2015.1.2 (kilo) allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage
quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting images
that are being uploaded using a token that expires during the process.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for
CVE-2014-9623.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| glance | 17.04 zesty | Not affected |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Fixed 1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.1 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Ignored end of life |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5286?format=md#patch-details)

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| glance | * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229946> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229975> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229945> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229973> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/230056> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229972> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229943> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/229971> * Vendor:   <http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/7Server/en/RHOS/SRPMS/openstack-glance-2014.1.5-5.el7ost.src.rpm> |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5286)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5286)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2015-5286)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5286)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-3446-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-3446-1)
+ OpenStack Glance vulnerabilities
+ 11 October 2017

### Other references

* <https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-020.html>
* <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-October/000668.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5286>