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Ubuntu 12.10/12.04: USN-1764-1 Critical: Glance Data Leak

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2013
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Explore the Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2523-1 revealing the Nova flaw that risks critical information leakage over network interfaces.
Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Summary

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

Software Description:

- glance: OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details:

Stuart McLaren discovered an issue with Glance v1 API requests. An

authenticated attacker could exploit this to expose the Glance operator's

Swift and/or S3 credentials via the response headers when requesting a

cached image.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu information exposure network threat data leak Glance

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  python-glance                   2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  python-glance                   2012.1.3+stable~20120821-120fcf-0ubuntu1.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1764-1

CVE-2013-1840

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1764-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu information exposure network threat data leak Glance

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glance/2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glance/2012.1.3+stable~20120821-120fcf-0ubuntu1.5

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