USN-5835-3 fixed vulnerabilities in Nova. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou discovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive information.
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