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** Also affects: nova/icehouse
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: nova/icehouse
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: nova/icehouse
    Milestone: None => 2014.1.2

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Title:
  [OSSA 2014-024] nova metadata does not use a constant time compare for
  validating an HMAC token (CVE-2014-3517)

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

Bug description:
  Here:

  https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/HEAD/nova/api/metadata/handler.py#L173

  a constant time comparison should be used, more information on this
  type of attack here: http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/

  An example constant time comparison in Python can be found here:
  https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/crypto.py#L80
  or via the PyCA cryptography library:
  https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/constant-time/

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