CVE-2013-6437
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.0 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2014-03-06
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Affected products
References
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
