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Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1413-1 Moderate: Nova Resource Exhaustion Alert

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2012
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Log files in Ubuntu 11.10 may be susceptible to exploitation that can lead to storage resource exhaustion because of inadequate validation measures.
Nova log files could be made to exhaust storage resources.

Summary

Nova log files could be made to exhaust storage resources.

Software Description:

- nova: OpenStack Compute cloud infrastructure

Details:

Dan Prince discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation on

the length of server names. An authenticated attacker could issue requests

using long server names to exhaust the storage resources containing the Nova

API log file.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
  python-nova                     2011.3-0ubuntu6.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1413-1

CVE-2012-1585

March 29, 2012

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2011.3-0ubuntu6.5

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