CVE-2013-6437

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-03-06 15:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-16 14:55:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Nova

References

[openstack-announce] 20131218 [OSSA 2013-037] Nova compute DoS through ephemeral disk backing files (CVE-2013-6437)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2014:0231

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980

Third Party Advisory

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