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CVE-2013-6437GHSA-HRV9-4X4C-9JC8PYSEC-2026-874

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a d

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published
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Fix
Fixed in 12.0.0a0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • novaPyPI

    fixed in 12.0.0a0

References 3

rhn.redhat.com

lists.openstack.org

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