openstack/nova · Security
OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-4463
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
Description
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.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4463 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1 ↗
- http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3cdfe894ab58f7b91bf7fb690fc5bc724e44066f ↗
- http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/f6810be4ae1a6c93e7d8017ee67d5344dfdf4a30 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x ↗