OSSA-2012-020: Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances¶
- Date:
December 11, 2012
- CVE:
CVE-2012-5625
Affects¶
Nova: Folsom, Grizzly
Description¶
Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling reported a vulnerability in libvirt LVM-backed instances. The physical volume content was not wiped out before being deallocated and passed to an instance, which may result in the disclosure of information from previously-allocated logical volumes.Only setups using libvirt and LVM-backed instances (libvirt_images_type=lvm) are affected.
Patches¶
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/17856 (Grizzly)
Credits¶
Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling (CVE-2012-5625)