[OSSA 2016-003] Heat denial of service through template-validate (CVE-2015-5295)

[Tristan Cacqueray <tdecacqu () redhat com>]

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OSSA-2016-003: Heat denial of service through template-validate
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:Date: January 19, 2016
:CVE: CVE-2015-5295


Affects
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- Heat: <=2015.1.2, ==5.0.0


Description
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Steven Hardy from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Heat template
validation. By referencing a local file like /dev/zero, an
authenticated user may trick the heat engine service to load arbitrary
local file content resulting in a Denial of Service attack through
memory exhaustion. Note that the file content is not written back to
the user, though the user can determine if a file exists and if it is
readable by heat-engine. All Heat setups are affected.


Patches
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- https://review.openstack.org/269692 (Kilo)
- https://review.openstack.org/269691 (Liberty)
- https://review.openstack.org/269689 (Mitaka)


Credits
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- Steven Hardy from Red Hat (CVE-2015-5295)


References
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- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496277
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5295


Notes
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- This fix will be included in future 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.1
  (liberty) releases.

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Tristan Cacqueray
OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team

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