Resource Exhaustion Affecting horizon package, versions <2014.1.3-6
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EPSS
1.57% (88th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-HORIZON-1547892
- published 12 Dec 2014
- disclosed 12 Dec 2014
Introduced: 12 Dec 2014
CVE-2014-8124 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 horizon to version 2014.1.3-6 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream horizon package and not the horizon package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2014.1.3 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 does not properly handle session records when using a db or memcached session engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of requests to the login page.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8124
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61186
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8124
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0839
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0845
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8124
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169637
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