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PYSEC-2026-860
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service due to improper validation of virtual size of QCOW2 image
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-860 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'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
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4469[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/135faa7b5d9855312bedc19e5e1ecebae34d3d18[WEB]
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3cdfe894ab58f7b91bf7fb690fc5bc724e44066f[WEB]
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/f6810be4ae1a6c93e7d8017ee67d5344dfdf4a30[WEB]
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081[WEB]
- https://github.com/openstack/nova[PACKAGE]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3[WEB]
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1[WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/nova[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx[ADVISORY]