OSSA-2013-037: Nova compute DoS through ephemeral disk backing files¶
- Date:
December 18, 2013
- CVE:
CVE-2013-6437
Affects¶
Nova: All supported versions
Description¶
Phil Day from HP reported a vulnerability in the libvirt driver handling of ephemeral disk backing files on Nova compute nodes. By repeatedly creating snapshots, changing the os_type to a new random value, and spawning new instances from the snapshot (and quickly deleting those instances), an authenticated user could generate lots of different ephemeral disk backing files and fill up compute node disks, potentially resulting in a Denial of Service against a Nova setup. Only Nova setups running the libvirt driver are affected.
Patches¶
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62913 (Grizzly)
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62910 (Icehouse)
Credits¶
Phil Day from HP (CVE-2013-6437)
