CVE-2012-3361 - Flaggiest Advance

Description

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) Essex (2012.1) and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/ https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html