CVE-2013-6437
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-03-06 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 17:39
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980Third Party Advisory
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