GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq

OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-2096

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	nova	< 12.0.0a0	12.0.0a0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana 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 creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2096 advisory
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/0caeb8eaf20abcdc77828f5c6b79fc104619e231 web
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/44a8aba1d5da87d54db48079103fdef946666d80 web
https://github.com/openstack/nova package
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28717 web
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28901 web
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/29192 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20130726040108/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59924 web
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html web
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1831-1 web