Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nova  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-NOVA-617126
  • published5 Dec 2017
  • disclosed5 Dec 2017

Introduced: 5 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17051  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova package and not the nova package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in the default FilterScheduler in OpenStack Nova 16.0.3. By repeatedly rebuilding an instance with new images, an authenticated user may consume untracked resources on a hypervisor host leading to a denial of service, aka doubled resource allocations. This regression was introduced with the fix for OSSA-2017-005 (CVE-2017-16239); however, only Nova stable/pike or later deployments with that fix applied and relying on the default FilterScheduler are affected.