CVE-2014-8750 Information

Description

Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.

Reference

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60227 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372