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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2321-1 Moderate: OpenStack Neutron DoS Risk

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
OpenStack Neutron could be made to expose sensitive information or crash.

=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2321-1
August 21, 2014

neutron vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

OpenStack Neutron could be made to expose sensitive information or crash.

Software Description:
- neutron: OpenStack Virtual Network Service

Details:

Liping Mao discovered that OpenStack Neutron did not properly handle
requests for a large number of allowed address pairs. A remote
authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-3555)

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that OpenStack Neutron incorrectly filtered certain
tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication
tokens used in REST requests. (CVE-2014-4615)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  neutron-common                  1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2321-1
  CVE-2014-3555, CVE-2014-4615

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neutron/1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1




Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2321-1 Moderate: OpenStack Neutron DoS Risk

ubuntu
Calendar Grey August 21, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS faces information leakage and denial of service threats due to OpenStack Neutron security flaws.
OpenStack Neutron could be made to expose sensitive information or crash.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: neutron-common 1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2321-1

CVE-2014-3555, CVE-2014-4615

=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2321-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neutron/1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

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