USN-2311-2: OpenStack Ceilometer vulnerability
Publication date
21 August 2014
Overview
OpenStack Ceilometer could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- ceilometer - OpenStack Telemetry service
Details
USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the
corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer.
Original advisory 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.
USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the
corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer.
Original advisory 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
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.04 LTS trusty | ceilometer-common – 2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1 | ||
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