CVE-2012-3361

N/A Unknown

Published: July 22, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/49763

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/49802

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html