Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenStack Nova would sometimes respond with variable times when comparing authentication tokens. If nova were configured to proxy metadata requests via Neutron, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to conduct timing attacks and ascertain configuration details of another instance.
Affected
nova on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-3517 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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