Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nova  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-NOVA-644319
  • published20 Aug 2012
  • disclosed20 Aug 2012

Introduced: 20 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3447  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova package and not the nova package as distributed by Ubuntu.

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.