CVE-2013-4469 | BDVDB-2026-58282 Detail

Description#

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, 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 transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12013-11-02Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.