Bug 767236 (CVE-2011-4596)

Summary:	CVE 2011-4596 openstack-nova: Sanitize EC2 manifests and image tarballs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akscram, alexander.sakhnov, asalkeld, bfilippov, jonathansteffan, jrusnack, markmc, matt_domsch, mlvov, p, rbryant, rkukura, vdanen
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Bug Depends On:	767251
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2011-12-13 15:27:25 UTC

This just made public upstream:

  Prevent potential directory traversal with malicious EC2 image tarballs,
  by making sure the tarfile is safe before unpacking it. Fixes bug 894755

  Prevent potential directory traversal with malicious file names in
  EC2 image manifests. Fixes bug 885167

See also:

  https://review.openstack.org/#change,2284
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2011-4596

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-12-13 16:19:46 UTC

Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 767251]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-12-23 03:28:04 UTC

openstack-nova-2011.3-13.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.