CVE-2015-5162

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

OpenStack

First reported 8 years ago

2016-10-07 14:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:30:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Glance 11.0.1

11.0.1

OpenStack Nova

OpenStack Nova 13.0.0

13.0.0

References

RHSA-2016:2923

RHSA-2016:2991

RHSA-2017:0153

RHSA-2017:0156

RHSA-2017:0165

RHSA-2017:0282

[oss-security] 20161006 OSSA 2016-012] Malicious qemu-img input may exhaust resources in Cinder, Glance, Nova (CVE-2015-5162)

Third Party Advisory

76849

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062

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