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Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1413-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58534

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

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.

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Solution

Update the affected python-nova package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1413-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58534

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1413-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1585

USN: 1413-1