CVE-2012-1585 (GCVE-0-2012-1585)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:01
VLAI
Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/201… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/962515 x_refsource_MISC
http://lwn.net/Alerts/491298/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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