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[Thierry Carrez <thierry.carrez+lp@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: ossa
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251590

Title:
  [OSSA 2014-003] Live migration can leak root disk into ephemeral
  storage (CVE-2013-7130)

Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Fix Committed
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) grizzly series:
  Fix Committed
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) havana series:
  Fix Committed
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  During pre-live-migration required disks are created along with their
  backing files (if they don't already exist). However, the ephemeral
  backing file is created from a glance downloaded root disk.

  # If the required ephemeral backing file is present then there's no
  issue.

  # If the required ephemeral backing file is not already present, then
  the root disk is downloaded and saved as the ephemeral backing file.
  This will result in the following situations:

  ## The disk.local transferred during live-migration will be rebased on the ephemeral backing file so regardless of the content, the end result will be identical to the source disk.local.
  ## However, if a new instance of the same flavor is spawned on this compute node, then it will have an ephemeral storage that exposes a root disk.

  Security concerns:

  If the migrated VM was spawned off a snapshot, now it's possible for
  any instances of the correct flavor to see the snapshot contents of
  another user via the ephemeral storage.

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