CVE-2013-6437

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/novafrom 0, < 2013.2.2
• PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (9)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6437
• PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
• WEBhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
• WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
• WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3e451f1bac57d24e47171cffb3ad59bb1610d836
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6e455cd97f04bf26bbe022be17c57e089cf502f4
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ca38774ebcf5b67d16c202c8f218c0c433973ca9