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Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1731-1 Critical: Cinder Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2013
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The vulnerability in Cinder for Ubuntu poses risks of denial of service. Apply updates to resolve crashes caused by specially crafted inputs. Find out more details.
Cinder could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

Cinder could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- cinder: Cinder storage service - api server

Details:

Stuart Stent discovered that Cinder would allow XML entity processing. A

remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Cinder API to

cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. (CVE-2013-1664)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue Ubuntu Cinder

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  python-cinder                   2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1731-1

CVE-2013-1664

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1731-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue Ubuntu Cinder

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

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