Bug 767236 (CVE-2011-4596) - CVE 2011-4596 openstack-nova: Sanitize EC2 manifests and image tarballs
Summary: CVE 2011-4596 openstack-nova: Sanitize EC2 manifests and image tarballs
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4596
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 767251
Blocks: 761607
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Reported: 2011-12-13 15:27 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-05-30 18:05:54 UTC
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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.
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