CVE-2013-4463

Advisory

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

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Resources

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4463