CVE-2013-4463

Description

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.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3