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Ubuntu 13.04 : cinder vulnerabilities (USN-2005-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 70584
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
Rongze Zhu discovered that the Cinder LVM driver did not zero out data when deleting snapshots. This could expose sensitive information to authenticated users when subsequent servers use the volume.(CVE-2013-4183)
Grant Murphy discovered that Cinder would allow XML entity processing.
A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Cinder API to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.
(CVE-2013-4179, CVE-2013-4202).
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-cinder package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 70584
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2005-1.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 10/24/2013
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cinder, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2013
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-4179, CVE-2013-4183, CVE-2013-4202
USN: 2005-1