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PYSEC-2026-872
OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-872 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'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
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]
- https://pypi.org/project/nova[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4[ADVISORY]