usn-3195-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-02-10 01:18
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
nova-lxd vulnerability
Details

James Page discovered that Nova-LXD incorrectly set up virtual network devices when creating LXD instances. This could result in an unintended firewall configuration.

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  "affected": [
    {
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          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2017-5936",
              "severity": [
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                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-lxd",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-nova-lxd",
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        "name": "nova-lxd",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova-lxd@13.2.0-0ubuntu1.16.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "13.2.0-0ubuntu1.16.04.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "0.19.0-0ubuntu1",
        "13.0.0~b2-0ubuntu2",
        "13.0.0~b3-0ubuntu1",
        "13.0.0~b3-0ubuntu2",
        "13.0.0-0ubuntu1",
        "13.0.0-0ubuntu2",
        "13.0.0-0ubuntu3",
        "13.0.0-0ubuntu3.1",
        "13.2.0-0ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "James Page discovered that Nova-LXD incorrectly set up virtual network devices\nwhen creating LXD instances. This could result in an unintended firewall\nconfiguration.\n",
  "id": "USN-3195-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:05Z",
  "published": "2017-02-10T01:18:25Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3195-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5936"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/1656847"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "nova-lxd vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5936"
  ]
}



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