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TITLE:
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Host File Injection and File Corruption
Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49763

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-07-04

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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenStack Compute (Nova),
which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) The application improperly verifies paths in requests for file
injections in disk images. This can be exploited to inject files in
arbitrary locations on the host filesystem via directory traversal
sequences.

This vulnerability only affects series Essex (2012.1) running
OpenStack API over libvirt-based hypervisors.

2) An error when handling requests for instances based on images can
be exploited to corrupt arbitrary files on the host filesystem via
specially crafted images and cause a DoS.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository for series Essex (2012.1) and Folsom
(2012.2). A fix for series Diablo (2011.3) is currently under review.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Matthias Weckbecker, SUSE Security Team
2) Pádraig Brady, Red Hat within a Launchpad bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Nova:
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9
https://review.openstack.org/9268

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