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CVE-2016-2140

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.4 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.3 (liberty), when using raw storage and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 header in an ephemeral or root disk.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1548450

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https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-007.html

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[oss-security] 20160308 Re: [OSSA 2016-007] Nova host data leak through resize/migration (CVE-2016-2140)

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