OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2013-4463US | low2.1 | — | ||
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file sy… | ||||
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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3cdfe894ab58f7b91bf7fb690fc5bc724e44066fWEB
- http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/f6810be4ae1a6c93e7d8017ee67d5344dfdf4a30WEB
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.htmlWEB
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3WEB
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1WEB
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081WEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4xADVISORY
- https://github.com/openstack/novaPACKAGE
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