[OSSA 2015-013] Glance task flow may fail to delete image from backend (CVE-2015-3289)

[Grant Murphy <grant.murphy () hp com>]

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OSSA-2015-013: Glance task flow may fail to delete image from backend
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:Date: July 28, 2015
:CVE: CVE-2015-3289


Affects
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- Glance: versions 2015.1.0


Description
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Abhishek Kekane from NTT reported a vulnerability in Glance. By
creating numerous images using the import task flow 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 are affected.


Patches
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- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/181816/ (Kilo)
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/181345/ (Liberty)


Credits
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- Abhishek Kekane from NTT (CVE-2015-3289)


References
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- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1454087
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3289


Notes
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- This fix will be included in the future 2015.1.1 (kilo) release.

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