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nova: privilege escalation

Package(s):nova CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3360 CVE-2012-3361
Created:July 3, 2012 Updated:August 23, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)

Pádraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2012-3361)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1497-1 2012-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10418 2012-07-19
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10420 2012-07-19
Ubuntu USN-1545-1 2012-08-22

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