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Ubuntu update for nova


Secunia ID

SA49048

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2101

Release Date

04 May 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for nova. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA49034

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2012.1-0ubuntu2.1

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2011.3-0ubuntu6.6

Original Advisory

USN-1438-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1/