The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (excessive database lookup calls and server hang) via a request with many repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section.
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-0023
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1