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CVE-2013-4179

Published: 8 August 2013

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 not affected per upstream
Ubuntu 13.04 has fix in raring-updates

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
nova
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1:2013.2)
lucid Does not exist

precise Not vulnerable

quantal Not vulnerable

raring
Released (1:2013.1.3-0ubuntu1.1)
saucy Not vulnerable
(1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1)
Patches:
other: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229