USN-2208-1: OpenStack Cinder vulnerability

6 May 2014

OpenStack Cinder could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso discovered that OpenStack Cinder did not enforce
SSL connections when Nova was configured to use QPid and qpid_protocol is
set to 'ssl'. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle
attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. Ubuntu
does not use QPid with Nova by default.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

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

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