USN-2003-1: Glance vulnerability

23 October 2013

Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network under certain circumstances.

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Releases

Packages

  • glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Stuart McLaren discovered that Glance did not properly enforce the
'download_image' policy for cached images. An authenticated user could
exploit this to obtain sensitive information in an image protected by this
setting.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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