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CVE-2013-4463

Published: 6 February 2014

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096 (LP: #1177830)
patch for CVE-2013-4469 should fix this
saucy needs a no change rebuild for saucy-security

Priority

Low

Status

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

precise
Released (2012.1.3+stable-20130423-e52e6912-0ubuntu1.4)
quantal Ignored
(end of life, was pending)
raring Ignored
(end of life)
saucy
Released (1:2013.2.3-0ubuntu1.2)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2])
upstream
Released (1:2013.2.1-1)
Patches:
vendor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=816275&action=diff
vendor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=816276&action=diff
vendor: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=816277&action=diff
upstream: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/f6810be4ae1a6c93e7d8017ee67d5344dfdf4a30
upstream: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3cdfe894ab58f7b91bf7fb690fc5bc724e44066f
upstream: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/135faa7b5d9855312bedc19e5e1ecebae34d3d18
upstream: https://review.openstack.org/54767
upstream: https://review.openstack.org/54768