Candidate: CVE-2013-6437
PublicDate: 2014-03-06 15:55:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6437
 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> OSSA 2013-037
 mdeslaur> in precise and quantal, code is in connection.py
 mdeslaur> seems to be introduced by:
 mdeslaur> https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py?id=0cecdf4b8632d3a4eea816869796b03e8b928256
Bugs:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Phil Day
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_nova:
 upstream: https://review.openstack.org/62910 (icehouse)
 upstream: https://review.openstack.org/62912 (havana)
 upstream: https://review.openstack.org/62913 (grizzly)
upstream_nova: needs-triage
lucid_nova: DNE
precise_nova: not-affected
quantal_nova: not-affected
raring_nova: ignored (reached end-of-life)
saucy_nova: not-affected (1:2013.2.2-0ubuntu1)
devel_nova: not-affected (1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu2)