CVE-2014-8750

Publication date 15 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nova	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

requires use with unsupported VMware ESX driver. This is not compiled in to libvirt in the Ubuntu archive, which makes this code path unavailable in Ubuntu

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8750