CVE-2014-8750

Publication date 15 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nova 14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

requires use with unsupported VMware ESX driver. This is not compiled in to libvirt in the Ubuntu archive, which makes this code path unavailable in Ubuntu