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GSD-2013-6437

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
Aliases
Aliases

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