PYSEC-2012-36

Withdrawn 2024-11-22. This finding no longer applies and is kept for reference. It is not used when checking packages.

Quick fix

PYSEC-2012-36 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nova>=8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb'

Details

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb

Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb'

References

https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49034[ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49048[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb[FIX]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64[FIX]
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7[FIX]
http://www.osvdb.org/81641[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html[WEB]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8[ADVISORY]