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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2311-2

Posted on 22 August 2014
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link

 

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2311-2
August 21, 2014

ceilometer vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

OpenStack Ceilometer could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:
- ceilometer: OpenStack Telemetry service

Details:

USN-2311-1 fixed vulnerabilities in pyCADF. This update provides the
corresponding updates for OpenStack Ceilometer.

Original advisory details:

Zhi Kun Liu discovered that pyCADF incorrectly filtered certain tokens.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication tokens
used in REST requests.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
ceilometer-common 2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2311-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2311-1
CVE-2014-4615

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ceilometer/2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1

 

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