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Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2703-1 Critical: Cinder Network File Access

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Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by anauthenticated user.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2703-1
August 06, 2015

cinder vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.04

Summary:

Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by an
authenticated user.

Software Description:
- cinder: OpenStack storage service

Details:

Bastian Blank discovered that Cinder guessed image formats based on
untrusted data. An attacker could use this to read arbitrary files from
the Cinder host.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  python-cinder                   1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart cinder to make all the
necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2703-1
  CVE-2015-1851

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2703-1 Critical: Cinder Network File Access

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Cinder flaw grants logged-in users the capability to reach restricted files via the network in Ubuntu 15.04.
Cinder could be made to access unintended files over the network by anauthenticated user.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.04: python-cinder 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1 After a standard system update you need to restart cinder to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2703-1

CVE-2015-1851

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August 06, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1.1

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