Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nova (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed15 Oct 2014
Introduced: 15 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-8750 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova package and not the nova package as distributed by Debian.
Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8750
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60227