CVE 2013-4463
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.
Related bugs and status
CVE-2013-4463 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:
Bug #1185019: rootwrap sudoers configuration does not follow packaging guidelines
Bug #1206081: [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS
Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1206081 | [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS | OpenStack Compute (nova) | High | Fix Released | ||
1206081 | [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS | OpenStack Security Advisory | Medium | Fix Released | ||
1206081 | [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS | OpenStack Compute (nova) folsom | High | Won't Fix | ||
1206081 | [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS | OpenStack Compute (nova) grizzly | High | Fix Released | ||
1206081 | [OSSA 2013-029] Unchecked qcow2 root disk sizes DoS | OpenStack Compute (nova) havana | High | Fix Released |
See the
CVE page on Mitre.org
for more details.