pycrypto is unused and the existing code is potentially insecure to use

Bug #1033178 reported by Pádraig Brady
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OpenStack Compute (nova)
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Stanislaw Pitucha
Essex
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Bug Description

The actual use of pycrypto was removed in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/3629/
In addition the existing code doesn't set IV and so is potentially dangerous to use.

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to nova (stable/essex)

Fix proposed to branch: stable/essex
Review: https://review.openstack.org/10848

Mark McLoughlin (markmc)
Changed in nova:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone: 2012.1.2 → none
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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to nova (stable/essex)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/10848
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e8ef050bd37c2cdf7b47d5cd2b4ed1d4359898b6
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/essex

commit e8ef050bd37c2cdf7b47d5cd2b4ed1d4359898b6
Author: Stanislaw Pitucha <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Aug 4 19:50:54 2012 +0100

    Drop AES functions and pycrypto dependency

    At some point IV parameter has been removed making these functions
    dangerous to use unless keys are unique on every message. Since the
    functions were added the original consumer has disappeared too. With
    no more users it's better to get rid of the incomplete encryption system
    entirely.

    These were the only functions using pycrypto module directly, so it was
    also removed from the dependency list.

    Fixes bug: 1033178
    Change-Id: I57b0a0a42dac455d5baae3d726aea1507121aa4d
    (cherry picked from commit 56d3d29ad2451bd0e753e7878827a08b458b726b)

Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
milestone: none → folsom-3
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Dave Walker (davewalker)
Changed in nova (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in nova (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Confirmed
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Adam Gandelman (gandelman-a) wrote : Verification report.

Please find the attached test log from the Ubuntu Server Team's CI infrastructure. As part of the verification process for this bug, Nova has been deployed and configured across multiple nodes using precise-proposed as an installation source. After successful bring-up and configuration of the cluster, a number of exercises and smoke tests have be invoked to ensure the updated package did not introduce any regressions. A number of test iterations were carried out to catch any possible transient errors.

Please Note the list of installed packages at the top and bottom of the report.

For records of upstream test coverage of this update, please see the Jenkins links in the comments of the relevant upstream code-review(s):

Stable review: https://review.openstack.org/10848

As per the provisional Micro Release Exception granted to this package by the Technical Board, we hope this contributes toward verification of this update.

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Adam Gandelman (gandelman-a) wrote :

Test coverage log.

tags: added: verification-done
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package nova - 2012.1.3+stable-20120827-4d2a4afe-0ubuntu1

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nova (2012.1.3+stable-20120827-4d2a4afe-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot, fixes FTBFS in -proposed. (LP: #1041120)
  * Resynchronize with stable/essex (4d2a4afe):
    - [5d63601] Inappropriate exception handling on kvm live/block migration
      (LP: #917615)
    - [ae280ca] Deleted floating ips can cause instance delete to fail
      (LP: #1038266)

nova (2012.1.3+stable-20120824-86fb7362-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot. (LP: #1041120)
  * Dropped, superseded by new snapshot:
    - debian/patches/CVE-2012-3447.patch: [d9577ce]
    - debian/patches/CVE-2012-3371.patch: [25f5bd3]
    - debian/patches/CVE-2012-3360+3361.patch: [b0feaff]
  * Resynchronize with stable/essex (86fb7362):
    - [86fb736] Libvirt driver reports incorrect error when volume-detach fails
      (LP: #1029463)
    - [272b98d] nova delete lxc-instance umounts the wrong rootfs (LP: #971621)
    - [09217ab] Block storage connections are NOT restored on system reboot
      (LP: #1036902)
    - [d9577ce] CVE-2012-3361 not fully addressed (LP: #1031311)
    - [e8ef050] pycrypto is unused and the existing code is potentially insecure
      to use (LP: #1033178)
    - [3b4ac31] cannot umount guestfs (LP: #1013689)
    - [f8255f3] qpid_heartbeat setting in ineffective (LP: #1030430)
    - [413c641] Deallocation of fixed IP occurs before security group refresh
      leading to potential security issue in error / race conditions
      (LP: #1021352)
    - [219c5ca] Race condition in network/deallocate_for_instance() leads to
      security issue (LP: #1021340)
    - [f2bc403] cleanup_file_locks does not remove stale sentinel files
      (LP: #1018586)
    - [4c7d671] Deleting Flavor currently in use by instance creates error
      (LP: #994935)
    - [7e88e39] nova testsuite errors on newer versions of python-boto (e.g.
      2.5.2) (LP: #1027984)
    - [80d3026] NoMoreFloatingIps: Zero floating ips available after repeatedly
      creating and destroying instances over time (LP: #1017418)
    - [4d74631] Launching with source groups under load produces lazy load error
      (LP: #1018721)
    - [08e5128] API 'v1.1/{tenant_id}/os-hosts' does not return a list of hosts
      (LP: #1014925)
    - [801b94a] Restarting nova-compute removes ip packet filters (LP: #1027105)
    - [f6d1f55] instance live migration should create virtual_size disk image
      (LP: #977007)
    - [4b89b4f] [nova][volumes] Exceeding volumes, gigabytes and floating_ips
      quotas returns general uninformative HTTP 500 error (LP: #1021373)
    - [6e873bc] [nova][volumes] Exceeding volumes, gigabytes and floating_ips
      quotas returns general uninformative HTTP 500 error (LP: #1021373)
    - [7b215ed] Use default qemu-img cluster size in libvirt connection driver
    - [d3a87a2] Listing flavors with marker set returns 400 (LP: #956096)
    - [cf6a85a] nova-rootwrap hardcodes paths instead of using
      /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin (LP: #1013147)
    - [2efc87c] affinity filters don't work if scheduler_hints is None
      (LP: #1007573)
  ...

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Changed in nova (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
milestone: folsom-3 → 2012.2
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