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Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1.1-15.fc17 (2012-11756)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61615

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix package dependencies for updates

 - Fix CA cert permissions issue introduced in 2012.1.1-10

 - Split out into more sub packages

 - Update from stable upstream including...

 - Fix metadata file injection with xen

 - Fix affinity filters when hints is None

 - Fix marker behavior for flavors

 - Handle local remote exceptions consistently

 - Fix qcow2 size on libvirt live block migration

 - Fix for API listing of os hosts

 - Avoid lazy loading errors on instance_type

 - Avoid casts in network manager to prevent races

 - Conditionally allow queries for deleted flavours

 - Fix wrong regex in cleanup_file_locks

 - Add net rules to VMs on compute service start

 - Tolerate parsing null connection info in BDM

 - Support EC2 CreateImage API for boot from volume

 - EC2 DescribeImages reports correct rootDeviceType

 - Reject EC2 CreateImage for instance store

 - Fix EC2 CreateImage no_reboot logic

 - Convert remaining network API casts to calls

 - Move where the fixed ip deallocation happens

 - Fix the qpid_heartbeat option so that it's effective

 - Prohibit host file corruption through file injection (CVE-2012-3447)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openstack-nova package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846624

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea538344

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61615

File Name: fedora_2012-11756.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openstack-nova, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3361, CVE-2012-3447

BID: 54278, 54869

FEDORA: 2012-11756