===================================================== OSSA-2018-001: Raw underlying encrypted volume access ===================================================== :Date: April 20, 2018 :CVE: CVE-2017-18191 Affects ~~~~~~~ - Nova: >=15.0.0 <=15.1.0, >=16.0.0 <=16.1.1 Description ~~~~~~~~~~~ Lee Yarwood (Red Hat) reported a vulnerability in Nova encrypted volumes handling. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header resuling in a denial of service attack on the compute host. All Nova setups supporting encrypted volumes are affected. Patches ~~~~~~~ - https://review.openstack.org/561604 (Ocata) - https://review.openstack.org/543569 (Pike) - https://review.openstack.org/460243 (Queens) Credits ~~~~~~~ - Lee Yarwood from Red Hat (CVE-2017-18191) References ~~~~~~~~~~ - https://launchpad.net/bugs/1739593 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18191 Notes ~~~~~ - Pike and Ocata patches disable encrypted volume swapping, this feature is now only supported in Nova version >= 17.0.0. -- Tristan Cacqueray OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/attachments/20180420/8d91a353/attachment.sig>