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      "value": "El controlador libvirt en OpenStack Compute (Nova) anterior a 2013.2.2 y icehouse anterior a icehouse-2 permite a usuarios remotos autenticados causar una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (consumo de disco) mediante creaci\u00f3n y eliminaci\u00f3n de instancias con configuraciones os_type \u00fanicas, lo que provoca la creaci\u00f3n de un archivo de respaldo de disco ef\u00edmero nuevo."
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