CVE-2013-4179

Advisory

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

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Vulnerability changelog

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.


CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
REDHAT:RHSA-2013:1199: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
UBUNTU:USN-2005-1: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4179
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1