======================================================== OSSA-2015-004: Glance import task leaks image in backend ======================================================== :Date: February 23, 2015 :CVE: CVE-2014-9684, CVE-2015-1881 Affects ~~~~~~~ - Glance: 2014.2 versions through 2014.2.2 Description ~~~~~~~~~~~ Abhishek Kekane from NTT and Mike Fedosin from Mirantis reported a vulnerability in the Glance import task. By creating numerous images using the task API and deleting them, an authenticated attacker may accumulate untracked image data in the backend resulting in potential resource exhaustion and denial of service. All glance setups using API v2 are affected. Patches ~~~~~~~ - https://review.openstack.org/156553 (Juno) - https://review.openstack.org/157067 (Juno) - https://review.openstack.org/156493 (Kilo) - https://review.openstack.org/122427 (Kilo) Credits ~~~~~~~ - Abhishek Kekane from NTT (CVE-2015-1881) - Mike Fedosin from Mirantis (CVE-2014-9684) References ~~~~~~~~~~ - https://launchpad.net/bugs/1420696 - https://launchpad.net/bugs/1371118 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9684 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1881 Notes ~~~~~ - This fix will be included in the kilo-3 development milestone and in future 2014.2.3 (juno) release. -- Tristan Cacqueray OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team