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CVE-2012-3447 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nova), 7 status rows across 7 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): DNE 2, released 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.
virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.