Out-of-Bounds Affecting nova package, versions <2013.1.3-1
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- published 16 Sep 2013
- disclosed 16 Sep 2013
Introduced: 16 Sep 2013
CVE-2013-4179 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
nova
to version 2013.1.3-1 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:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4179
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707