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CVE-2013-6437 (GCVE-0-2013-6437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-06 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:39
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2013-12-18 00:00
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