CVE-2013-6437

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Phil Day (HP) as the original reporter.", "affected_release": [{"advisory": "RHSA-2014:0231", "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:4::el6", "package": "openstack-nova-0:2013.2.2-2.el6ost", "product_name": "OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6", "release_date": "2014-03-04T00:00:00Z"}], "bugzilla": {"description": "openstack-nova: DoS through ephemeral disk backing files", "id": "1043106", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043106"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "4.0", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P", "status": "verified"}, "details": ["The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file."], "name": "CVE-2013-6437", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:3", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "openstack-nova", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3"}], "public_date": "2013-12-18T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6437\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437"], "statement": "Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having moderate security impact in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3.0. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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