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OSSA-2018-001: Raw underlying encrypted volume access
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:Date: April 20, 2018
:CVE: CVE-2017-18191


Affects
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- Nova: >=15.0.0 <=15.1.0, >=16.0.0 <=16.1.1


Description
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Lee Yarwood (Red Hat) reported a vulnerability in Nova encrypted
volumes handling. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume an
attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS
header resuling in a denial of service attack on the compute host. All
Nova setups supporting encrypted volumes are affected.


Patches
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- https://review.openstack.org/561604 (Ocata)
- https://review.openstack.org/543569 (Pike)
- https://review.openstack.org/460243 (Queens)


Credits
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- Lee Yarwood from Red Hat (CVE-2017-18191)


References
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- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1739593
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18191


Notes
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- Pike and Ocata patches disable encrypted volume swapping, this feature is now
only supported in Nova version >= 17.0.0.

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Tristan Cacqueray
OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team