Debian DSA-4056-1 : nova - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105088

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

George Shuklin from servers.com discovered that Nova, a cloud computing fabric controller, did not correctly enforce its image- or hosts-filters. This allowed an authenticated user to bypass those filters by simply rebuilding an instance.

Solution

Upgrade the nova packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2:14.0.0-4+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882009

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nova

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/nova

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4056

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105088

File Name: debian_DSA-4056.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nova, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16239

DSA: 4056