MEDIUM

GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4

OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS

Details

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

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Affected packages

PyPI / nova

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 12.0.0a0

Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8333 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d71445c7d2d2921d10a08f82330f0ab8ef4f7df2 [WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e1f8664c9fa83f77f5bb763ffcc3157905ed954c [WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1359138 [WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova [PACKAGE]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000298.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html [WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/60531 [WEB]