CVE-2013-4185

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/novafrom 0, < 2013.1.2-3
• PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (9)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4185
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4185
• PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
• WEBhttp://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/52ad911963da4095b213952dee3a430fe0c4c30f
• WEBhttp://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/85aac04704350566d6b06aa7a3b99649946c672c
• WEBhttp://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d4ee081c5c0a5132781235177c430ebcf72b0b0b
• WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041
• WEBhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282