CVE-2013-6437

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 6, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Nov 4, 2013

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

RHSA-2014:0231vendor-advisory
[openstack-announce] 20131218 [OSSA 2013-037] Nova compute DoS through ephemeral disk backing files (CVE-2013-6437)mailing-list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980

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