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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2248-1 Moderate: Cinder Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2014
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A patch has been released to fix a vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder that allowed unauthorized program execution as an admin on select Ubuntu versions, enhancing security.
OpenStack Cinder could be made to run programs as an administrator under certain conditions.

Summary

OpenStack Cinder could be made to run programs as an administrator under

certain conditions.

Software Description:

- cinder: OpenStack storage service

Details:

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Cinder

did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was

found in OpenStack Cinder, this vulnerability could be used to escalate

privileges. (CVE-2013-1068)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege escalation Ubuntu administrative access cinder

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  python-cinder                   1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
  python-cinder                   1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2248-1

CVE-2013-1068

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2248-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate privilege escalation Ubuntu administrative access cinder

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.1

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