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PYSEC-2026-880

OpenStack Nova Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-880 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

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

Details

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 12.0.0a0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1585[ADVISORY]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/962515[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova[PACKAGE]
http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/0fa7d12dbfb7ae016657dd91034b4c0781ea43de[WEB]
http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1ebec5726c7a9db0a6f29fad0ef747b0c087f702[WEB]
http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/c7f526fae6062e9ab51f65474af71d496aa66554[WEB]
http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/c869a41951b77c6930bf4fb4734f05cd3d6ac4b1[WEB]
http://lwn.net/Alerts/491298[WEB]
http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-03/msg01133.html[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/nova[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjvw-p2v5-wf6q[ADVISORY]