CVE-2012-3447

NameCVE-2012-3447
Descriptionvirt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs684256

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nova (PTS)jessie2014.1.3-11fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2:14.0.0-4+deb9u1fixed
buster2:18.1.0-6fixed
buster (security)2:18.1.0-6+deb10u2fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:22.0.1-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2:26.1.0-4fixed
sid2:29.0.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
novasource(unstable)2012.1.1-6684256

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