2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2013-2096

Published: 09/07/2013 Updated: 08/01/2014
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Vendor Advisories

Nova could be made to crash the system if instances used a specially crafted image ...
Debian Bug report logs - #728605 nova: CVE-2013-4463 and CVE-2013-4469 Package: nova; Maintainer for nova is Debian OpenStack <team+openstack@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:30:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Fixed in ver ...
Debian Bug report logs - #710157 CVE-2013-2096 Package: nova; Maintainer for nova is Debian OpenStack <team+openstack@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:30:05 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixed in version nova/201312-2 Done: Thomas Goirand <zig ...
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 ...