USN-2705-1: Keystone vulnerabilities

6 August 2015

Keystone could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Qin Zhao discovered Keystone disabled certification verification when
the "insecure" option is set in a paste configuration (paste.ini)
file regardless of the value, which allows remote attackers to conduct
machine-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate. (CVE-2014-7144)

Brant Knudson discovered Keystone disabled certification verification when
the "insecure" option is set in a paste configuration (paste.ini)
file regardless of the value, which allows remote attackers to conduct
machine-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate. (CVE-2015-1852)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

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