PYSEC-2012-42

At a glance

Published: 2012-12-26 22:55 UTC
Updated: 2026-06-10 17:02 UTC
CVE: CVE-2012-5625
Aliases: GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmq

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).

Affected packages

Package	Versions
PyPI · nova

References

http://osvdb.org/88419 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5 WEB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904 WEB
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539 WEB
https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2 WEB
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html ADVISORY
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293 REPORT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1 FIX
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f FIX
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354 FIX
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmq ADVISORY

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database