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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenStack Glance vulnerabilities (USN-3446-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103809

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3446-1 advisory.

 Hemanth Makkapati discovered that OpenStack Glance incorrectly handled access restrictions. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to change the status of images, contrary to access restrictions.
 (CVE-2015-5251)

 Mike Fedosin and Alexei Galkin discovered that OpenStack Glance incorrectly handled the storage quota. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume disk resources, leading to a denial of service.
 (CVE-2015-5286)

 Erno Kuvaja discovered that OpenStack Glance incorrectly handled the show_multiple_locations option. When show_multiple_locations is enabled, a remote authenticated user could change an image status and upload new image data. (CVE-2016-0757)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3446-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103809

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3446-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5251

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-0757

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glance, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glance-registry, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glance-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glance-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-glance

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5251, CVE-2015-5286, CVE-2016-0757

USN: 3446-1