USN-2321-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• neutron - OpenStack Virtual Network Service

Details

Liping Mao discovered that OpenStack Neutron did not properly handle
requests for a large number of allowed address pairs. A remote
authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-3555)

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that OpenStack Neutron incorrectly filtered certain
tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication
tokens used in REST requests. (CVE-2014-4615)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• neutron-common - 1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

• CVE-2014-3555
• CVE-2014-4615

Related notices

• USN-2311-1: python-pycadf
• USN-2311-2: ceilometer-alarm-evaluator, ceilometer-collector, ceilometer-agent-compute, ceilometer-agent-central, ceilometer-agent-notification, ceilometer-common, ceilometer-api, ceilometer, python-ceilometer, ceilometer-alarm-notifier