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CVE-2013-4463

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which a

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.

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.00155
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

3
openstack folsomall versions
openstack grizzlyall versions
openstack havanaall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI nova LOW fixed in 12.0.0a0
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Scoring & Timeline

2.1
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD06 Feb 2014 · 05:44 AM
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Vendor Advisories

2
usnUSN-2247-1
rhsaRHSA-2014:0112Moderate
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References & Sources

4
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081
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