Ubuntu Security Update USN-7677-1: cloud-init vulnerabilities

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Harry Sintonen discovered that the hotplugd socket in cloud-init was world writable. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send hotplug-hook commands. (CVE-2024-11584) It was discovered that cloud-init granted root access to a hardcoded URL with a local IP address when a non-x86 platform is detected. An attacker could possibly impersonate an OpenStack endpoint and provide root configuration data. (CVE-2024-6174)

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