Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nova (opens in a new tab)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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- published15 Jan 2016
- disclosed15 Jan 2016
Introduced: 15 Jan 2016
CVE-2015-8749 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova package and not the nova package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The volume_utils._parse_volume_info function in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty) includes the connection_info dictionary in the StorageError message when using the Xen backend, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by reading log files or other unspecified vectors.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8749
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1516765
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-002.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8749
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80189