PublicDateAtUSN: 2012-04-19
Candidate: CVE-2012-2101
PublicDate: 2012-06-07 19:55:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2101
 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1438-1
Description:
 Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the
 number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users
 with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive
 consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables
 rules.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Dan Prince
Assigned-to: jdstrand
CVSS: 

Patches_nova:
 upstream: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64 (2012.1)
 upstream: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb (2011.3)
upstream_nova: needs-triage
hardy_nova: DNE
lucid_nova: DNE
natty_nova: ignored (reached end-of-life)
oneiric_nova: released (2011.3-0ubuntu6.6)
precise_nova: released (2012.1-0ubuntu2.1)
quantal_nova: released (2012.1-0ubuntu2.1)
devel_nova: released (2012.1-0ubuntu2.1)