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Debian DSA-5337-1 : nova - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170941

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5337 advisory.

 Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in OpenStack Compute (codenamed Nova) may result in information disclosure.
 For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2:22.0.1-2+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your nova packages. For the detailed security status of nova please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/nova

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

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

Solution

Upgrade the nova packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029561

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nova

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5337

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-47951

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/nova

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170941

File Name: debian_DSA-5337.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-47951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-compute-lxc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-conductor, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-compute-kvm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-volume, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-consoleproxy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-api, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-compute-ironic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-nova, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-compute-qemu, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova-compute

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-47951