CVE-2013-4463

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-02-06 05:44:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-06-21 04:32:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Folsom

References

RHSA-2014:0112

[oss-security] 20131031 [OSSA 2013-029] Potential Nova denial of service through compressed disk images (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

USN-2247-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081

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