medium4.0
CVE-2013-6437
The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (d…
Impact
The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Openstack | Nova | from 2013.1 before 2013.1.5 from 2013.2 before 2013.2.2 Version 2014.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980