Ubuntu 12.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1663-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63261

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Eric Windisch discovered that Nova did not properly clear LVM-backed images before they were reallocated which could potentially lead to an information leak. This issue only affected setups using libvirt LVM-backed instances.

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

Solution

Update the affected python-nova package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63261

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1663-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 12/13/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5625

BID: 56904

USN: 1663-1

Detections

Analytics