CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-6437
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-03-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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 configurations
• openstack nova (>= 2013.1 < 2013.1.5)
• openstack nova (>= 2013.2 < 2013.2.2)
• openstack nova 2014.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 Third Party Advisory