Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-1585 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Openstack Nova 2011.1/2011.2
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-4889.NASL description CVE-2012-1585: Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly Avoid killing dnsmasq on network service shutdown. update to Essex RC1 which fixes 159 bugs detailed here: https://launchpad.net/nova/essex/essex-rc1 Features : - Support non blocking libvirt operations Bugs : - Suppress errors logged when syncing power states - Fix an exception when querying a server through the API - Suppress deprecation warnings with db sync - Avoid and cater for missing libvirt instance images 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. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-04-12 plugin id 58704 published 2012-04-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/58704 title Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1-0.10.rc1.fc17 (2012-4889) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2012-4889. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(58704); script_version("1.11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1585"); script_bugtraq_id(52831); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2012-4889"); script_name(english:"Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1-0.10.rc1.fc17 (2012-4889)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "CVE-2012-1585: Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly Avoid killing dnsmasq on network service shutdown. update to Essex RC1 which fixes 159 bugs detailed here: https://launchpad.net/nova/essex/essex-rc1 Features : - Support non blocking libvirt operations Bugs : - Suppress errors logged when syncing power states - Fix an exception when querying a server through the API - Suppress deprecation warnings with db sync - Avoid and cater for missing libvirt instance images 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801302" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801791" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803905" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805947" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808149" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://launchpad.net/nova/essex/essex-rc1" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077727.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?43940f1e" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected openstack-nova package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openstack-nova"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/03/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/04/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^17([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 17.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC17", reference:"openstack-nova-2012.1-0.10.rc1.fc17")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "openstack-nova"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1413-1.NASL description Dan Prince discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation on the length of server names. An authenticated attacker could issue requests using long server names to exhaust the storage resources containing the Nova API log file. 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 58534 published 2012-03-30 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/58534 title Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1413-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1413-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(58534); script_version("1.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:27"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1585"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1413-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1413-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Dan Prince discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation on the length of server names. An authenticated attacker could issue requests using long server names to exhaust the storage resources containing the Nova API log file. 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1413-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected python-nova package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/08/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/03/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/03/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(11\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 11.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"python-nova", pkgver:"2011.3-0ubuntu6.5")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-nova"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-5026.NASL description CVE-2012-1585: Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly 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. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-04-09 plugin id 58632 published 2012-04-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/58632 title Fedora 16 : openstack-nova-2011.3.1-7.fc16 (2012-5026)