Resource Exhaustion Affecting openstack-glance package, versions <1:11.0.1-6.el7ost


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.09% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENSTACKGLANCE-5089660
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed29 Jun 2015

Introduced: 29 Jun 2015

CVE-2015-5162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 openstack-glance to version 1:11.0.1-6.el7ost or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2991.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openstack-glance package and not the openstack-glance package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.