CVE-2013-2096

Advisory

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/29192/
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28901/
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28717/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1831-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59924
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2096