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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3666-1 Moderate: Oslo Middleware Info Disclosure

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The Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-3666-1 addresses a significant flaw in python-oslo.middleware, aimed at mitigating risks of potential data breaches.
Applications using Oslo middleware could be made to expose sensitiveinformation.

Summary

Applications using Oslo middleware could be made to expose sensitive

information.

Software Description:

- python-oslo.middleware: WSGI middleware components for OpenStack

Details:

Divya K Konoor discovered Oslo middleware was vulnerable to an information

disclosure. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive

information from OpenStack component error logs.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Ubuntu information disclosure python-oslo.middleware

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  python-oslo.middleware          3.8.0-2ubuntu1
  python-oslo.middleware-doc      3.8.0-2ubuntu1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3666-1

CVE-2017-2592, https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystonemiddleware/+bug/1628031

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Ubuntu information disclosure python-oslo.middleware

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-oslo.middleware/3.8.0-2ubuntu1

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