OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images
Low severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated May 14, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 6, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
May 14, 2024
Last updated
May 14, 2024
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.
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