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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-03-06T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:39:01.271Z

Reserved: 2013-11-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-6437

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-03-06T15:55:28.767

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:59:13.533

Link: CVE-2013-6437

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-6437 - Bugzilla