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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2193-1
May 05, 2014

glance vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.10

Summary:

OpenStack Glance could be made to run programs as the glance user if it
processed a specially crafted request.

Software Description:
- glance: OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service

Details:

Paul McMillan discovered that the Sheepdog backend in OpenStack Glance did
not properly handle untrusted input. A remote authenticated attacker
exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the glance user.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10:
  python-glance                   1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2193-1
  CVE-2014-0162

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glance/1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.1