UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5295

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5295
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5295.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5295
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:15Z
Published
2016-01-20T16:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:11:36.552376Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / heat

Package

Name
heat
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/heat@1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1

Affected versions

1:5.*
1:5.0.0-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "heat-api"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cfn"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "heat-api-cloudwatch"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "heat-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "heat-engine"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.0~b1-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "python-heat"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5295.json"