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Advisory details: pysec / PYSEC-2012-41
Advisory ID pysec/PYSEC-2012-41
Aliases CVE-2012-5625
Summary OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
http://osvdb.org/88419
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354
https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1

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