Upstream information

CVE-2013-4261 at MITRE

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.5
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 836088 [VERIFIED / INVALID]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Cloud 2.0 openstack-nova Ignore
SUSE Cloud 4 openstack-nova Ignore
SUSE Cloud 4 Dependencies openstack-nova Ignore
SUSE Cloud 5 openstack-nova Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 openstack-nova Already fixed
Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle.
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 2.0 openstack-nova Ignore
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4 openstack-nova Ignore


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Sep 1 12:32:57 2010
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 16:01:11 2024