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CVE-2013-6437
Published: Mar 6, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
RHSA-2014:0231
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
[openstack-announce] 20131218 [OSSA 2013-037] Nova compute DoS through ephemeral disk backing files (CVE-2013-6437)
mailing-list
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
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