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CVE-2013-4179

Publication date 8 August 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nova 13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring
Fixed 1:2013.1.3-0ubuntu1.1
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 not affected per upstream Ubuntu 13.04 has fix in raring-updates

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
nova

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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