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USN-5835-1: Cinder vulnerability

31 January 2023

Cinder could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou
discovered that Cinder incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An
authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat
image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive
information.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-5835-2: glance-common, python-glance-doc, glance-api, glance, python3-glance
  • USN-5835-3: nova-compute-kvm, nova-api-metadata, nova-api, nova-compute-ironic, nova-compute-libvirt, nova-compute-qemu, nova-compute-lxc, nova-api-os-compute, nova-novncproxy, nova-compute, nova, nova-doc, nova-serialproxy, nova-compute-vmware, nova-compute-xen, nova-scheduler, nova-conductor, nova-api-os-volume, nova-volume, nova-ajax-console-proxy, nova-spiceproxy, nova-cells, nova-common, python3-nova
  • USN-5835-4: cinder-scheduler, cinder-volume, cinder-api, cinder-common, python-cinder, cinder, cinder-backup, python3-cinder
  • USN-5835-5: nova-compute-kvm, python-nova, nova-api-metadata, nova-api, nova-compute-libvirt, nova-compute-qemu, nova-console, nova-compute-lxc, nova-api-os-compute, nova-novncproxy, nova-compute, nova, nova-doc, nova-serialproxy, nova-compute-vmware, nova-compute-xen, nova-scheduler, nova-conductor, nova-api-os-volume, nova-volume, nova-consoleauth, nova-ajax-console-proxy, nova-placement-api, nova-spiceproxy, nova-xvpvncproxy, nova-network, nova-cells, nova-common
  • USN-6882-2: cinder-scheduler, cinder-volume, cinder-api, cinder-common, cinder, cinder-backup, python3-cinder