CVE-2013-4469

Nova: Incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096

Published Nov 2, 2013 CVSS 2.0 · 1.9 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-2062 OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service due to improper validation of virtual size of QCOW2 image
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2247-1 OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 4:45 PM
Reserved
Jun 12, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 2, 2013, 6:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:57 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 31, 2013, 12:00 AM