glance vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-0212  

Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Dan Prince discovered an issue in Glance error reporting. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to expose the Glance operator’s Swift credentials for a misconfigured or otherwise unusable Swift endpoint.

29 January 2013

glance vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.10
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 11.10

Summary

Glance could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description

  • glance - OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details

Dan Prince discovered an issue in Glance error reporting. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to expose the Glance operator’s Swift credentials for a misconfigured or otherwise unusable Swift endpoint.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10
python-glance - 2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
python-glance - 2012.1.3+stable~20120821-120fcf-0ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu 11.10
python-glance - 2011.3-0ubuntu4.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References