CVE-2012-5625 Information

Description

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).

Reference

http://osvdb.org/88419 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1 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