USN-5835-4: Cinder vulnerability

9 February 2023

Cinder could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • cinder - OpenStack storage service

Details

USN-5835-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Cinder. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In addition, a regression was
fixed for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou
discovered that Cinder incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An
authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat
image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive
information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

After a standard system update you need to restart Cinder to make all the

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