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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2012-5625 EUVD-2012-0024GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmqPYSEC-2012-41PYSEC-2012-42

Openstack nova: information leak in libvirt lvm-backed instances

Published Dec 26, 2012 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 — —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI nova < 12.0.0a0 12.0.0a0 GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmq
PyPI nova — — PYSEC-2012-42

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