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Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1734-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 64800
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
Joshua Harlow discovered that Nova would allow XML entity processing.A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Nova API to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.
(CVE-2013-1664).
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.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 64800
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1734-1.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 2/22/2013
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2013
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-1664
USN: 1734-1