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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2249-1 Moderate: OpenStack Heat Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2014
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS update addresses OpenStack Heat vulnerability, mitigating risks of unauthorized data exposure through network channels.
OpenStack Heat would expose sensitive information over the network.

Summary

OpenStack Heat would expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description:

- heat: OpenStack Orchestration Service

Details:

Jason Dunsmore discovered that OpenStack heat did not properly restrict

access to template information. A remote authenticated attacker could

exploit this to see URL provider templates of other tenants for a limited

time.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu information exposure heat OpenStack orchestration

Update Instructions

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

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

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2249-1

CVE-2014-3801

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2249-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu information exposure heat OpenStack orchestration

Package Information

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

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