CVE-2013-4463 (GCVE-0-2013-4463)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-06 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2013-10-31 00:00
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