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CVE-2013-2096

Published: 16 May 2013

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
the patch for this introduced a regression on Folsom. This was
not introduced in the 12.04 LTS backport and was fixed in 2012.2.3-0ubuntu2.2
on Ubuntu 12.10

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
nova
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Does not exist

precise
Released (2012.1.3+stable-20130423-e52e6912-0ubuntu1.1)
quantal
Released (2012.2.3-0ubuntu2.1)
raring
Released (1:2013.1-0ubuntu2.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:
other: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/30373/