USN-6073-1: Cinder vulnerability

11 May 2023

Cinder could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

Jan Wasilewski and Gorka Eguileor discovered that Cinder incorrectly
handled deleted volume attachments. An authenticated user or attacker could
possibly use this issue to gain access to sensitive information.

This update may require configuration changes to be completely effective,
please see the upstream advisory for more information:

https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2023-003.html

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

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