Bugzilla – Bug 867302
VUL-0: CVE-2012-6639: cloud-init: might access random "instance-data.local.domain" host
Last modified: 2020-04-01 22:10:33 UTC
via oss-sec Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:22:06 +0100 From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Subject: [oss-security] CVE request: cloud-init DNS resolution fix Prior to version 0.7.0, cloud-init could send requests for EC2 instance data to untrusted systems: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1040200 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/revision/635 This could allow someone who has control over a suitable domain name to obtain root rights on an affected system. This was reported and fixed silently in 2012, so it would need a 2012 CVE name. (This issue is not specific to cloud-init, there seem to be some wget scripts out there which exhibit the same behavior, but it's probably some custom stuff that's not distributed anywhere, so no CVE is needed for that.) -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073591
The SWAMPID for this issue is 56555. This issue was rated as moderate. Please submit fixed packages until 2014-03-21. When done, please reassign the bug to security-team@suse.de. Patchinfo will be handled by security team.
Affected packages: SLE-11-SP3-PRODUCTS: cloud-init SLE-11-SP3: cloud-init SLE-11-SP2-PRODUCTS: cloud-init SLE-11-SP2: cloud-init
revising last comment ... is_maintained cloud-init <empty> Is cloud-init not used anymore?
It's maintained by Robert, not by the SUSE Cloud team.
As we do not ship this anymore, and PubCloud uses 0.7.x, we can consider this fixed.