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Re: [OSSA-2013-006] VNC proxy can connect to the wrong VM (CVE-2013-0335)

 

On 02/26/13 12:34, Russell Bryant wrote:
> OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-006
> CVE: CVE-2013-0335
> Date: February 26, 2013
> Title: VNC proxy can connect to the wrong VM
> Reporter: Loganathan Parthipan (HP), Rohit Karajgi (NTT Data)
> Products: Nova
> Affects: All versions
> 
> Description:
> Loganathan Parthipan (HP) and Rohit Karajgi (NTT Data) independently
> reported a vulnerability in Nova. If a user requests a console and
> then deletes the VM, it is possible that the console token could allow
> connectivity to a different VM before the console token expires if the
> VNC port gets reused in that time period. This issue can be worked
> around by disabling VNC support.
> 
> Fixes:
> master (grizzly): https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22086/
> stable/folsom: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22758
> stable/essex: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22872/
> 
> References:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2013-0335
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125378
> 
> 
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Fixed in Gentoo.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459364

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-- Matthew Thode

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