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CVE-2013-6437

Publication date 6 March 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nova 13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring Ignored end of life
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

OSSA 2013-037 in precise and quantal, code is in connection.py seems to be introduced by: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py?id=0cecdf4b8632d3a4eea816869796b03e8b928256

Patch details

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Package Patch details
nova