Resource Management Errors Affecting nova package, versions <2013.1.2-2


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
4 medium
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-NOVA-524156
  • published 9 Jul 2013
  • disclosed 9 Jul 2013

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 nova to version 2013.1.2-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova package and not the nova package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.