CVE-2012-5625

Publication date 11 December 2012

Last updated 3 November 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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).

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nova 12.10 quantal
Fixed in 2012.2-0ubuntu5.2
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

only affects Folsom and higher per upstream

Patch details

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Package Patch details
nova

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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