USN-2311-1: pyCADF vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• python-pycadf - implementation of DMTF Cloud Audit (CADF) data model

Details

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens
used in REST requests.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• python-pycadf - 0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

• CVE-2014-4615

Related notices

• USN-2311-2: ceilometer-agent-central, ceilometer-alarm-evaluator, ceilometer-agent-notification, ceilometer-alarm-notifier, ceilometer-api, ceilometer-common, ceilometer-agent-compute, ceilometer, python-ceilometer, ceilometer-collector
• USN-2321-1: neutron-plugin-bigswitch, neutron-plugin-bigswitch-agent, neutron-plugin-oneconvergence-agent, neutron-plugin-linuxbridge, neutron-plugin-midonet, neutron-plugin-metering-agent, neutron-plugin-ryu, neutron-vpn-agent, neutron-common, neutron-plugin-hyperv, neutron-plugin-nicira, neutron-plugin-plumgrid, neutron-plugin-vmware, neutron-lbaas-agent, neutron-plugin-metaplugin, neutron-plugin-vpn-agent, neutron-server, neutron-plugin-openvswitch, neutron, python-neutron, neutron-l3-agent, neutron-plugin-ryu-agent, neutron-plugin-mlnx, neutron-plugin-nec-agent, neutron-plugin-ml2, neutron-metadata-agent, neutron-dhcp-agent, neutron-plugin-oneconvergence, neutron-plugin-linuxbridge-agent, neutron-plugin-ibm-agent, neutron-plugin-openflow-agent, neutron-plugin-nec, neutron-plugin-openvswitch-agent, neutron-plugin-brocade, neutron-plugin-ibm, neutron-metering-agent, neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent, neutron-plugin-cisco