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GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service due to improper validation of virtual size of QCOW2 image

Details

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, 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 transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

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Affected packages

PyPI / nova
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 12.0.0a0
Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

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