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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2323-1 Moderate: Cross-Site Scripting Threats

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2014
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Multiple significant XSS vulnerabilities addressed in OpenStack Horizon for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Immediate update advised.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Horizon.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Horizon.

Software Description:

- horizon: Web interface for OpenStack cloud infrastructure

Details:

Jason Hullinger discovered that OpenStack Horizon did not properly perform

input sanitization on Heat templates. If a user were tricked into using a

specially crafted Heat template, an attacker could conduct cross-site

scripting attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user

were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a

remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal

confidential data, within the same domain. (CVE-2014-3473)

Craig Lorentzen discovered that OpenStack Horizon did not properly perform

input sanitization when creating networks. If a user were tricked into

launching an image using the crafted network name, an attacker could

conduct cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2014-3474)

Michael Xin discovered that OpenStack Horizon did not proper...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate cross-site scripting input sanitization ubuntu openstack

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  openstack-dashboard             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-2323-1

CVE-2014-3473, CVE-2014-3474, CVE-2014-3475, CVE-2014-3594

=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2323-1

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security advisory moderate cross-site scripting input sanitization ubuntu openstack

Package Information

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

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