openstack/nova · Security
OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-2096
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2096 ↗
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1831-1 ↗
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28717 ↗
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28901 ↗
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/29192 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/0caeb8eaf20abcdc77828f5c6b79fc104619e231 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/44a8aba1d5da87d54db48079103fdef946666d80 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130726040108/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59924 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq ↗