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Nova: Compressed disk image DoS

Published Feb 6, 2014

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

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Red Hat statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Feb 6, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 12, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 31, 2013
GHSA-5644-2V3H-5W4X