CVE-2013-6437

Advisory

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

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Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6437