Incomplete Fix for Virtual Size Verification in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Allows Denial of Service

CVE-2013-4463 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

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