CVE-2012-3371

Advisory

The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (excessive database lookup calls and server hang) via a request with many repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section.

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Resources

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/13
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54388
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3371