Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5162 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Openstack Cinder, Glance and Nova
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-3449-1.NASL |
description | George Shuklin discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled the migration process. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3241) George Shuklin and Tushar Patil discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled deleting instances. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume disk resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3280) It was discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly limited qemu-img calls. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5162) Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled snapshots. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-7548) Sreekumar S. and Suntao discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly applied security group changes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended restriction changes by leveraging an instance that was running when the change was made. (CVE-2015-7713) Matt Riedemann discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from log files. (CVE-2015-8749) Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled certain qcow2 headers. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2016-2140). 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 | 103812 |
published | 2017-10-12 |
reporter | Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103812 |
title | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : nova vulnerabilities (USN-3449-1) |
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References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2923.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2923.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2991.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2991.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0282.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0282.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76849
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76849
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062