CVE-2013-4185

Advisory

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4185