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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2322-1 Critical: OpenStack Glance Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2014
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Ubuntu USN-2323-1 resolves a critical vulnerability in OpenStack Nova that could lead to remote code execution.
OpenStack Glance could be made to stop serving requests.

Summary

OpenStack Glance could be made to stop serving requests.

Software Description:

- glance: OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details:

Thomas Leaman and Stuart McLaren discovered that OpenStack Glance did not

properly honor the image_size_cap configuration option. A remote

authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via

disk consumption.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Ubuntu OpenStack Glance

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  glance-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-2322-1

CVE-2014-5356

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2322-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS Ubuntu OpenStack Glance

Package Information

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

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