CVE-2013-1838 (GCVE-0-2013-1838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-22 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:13
VLAI
Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/52580 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/91303 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2013-03-14 00:00
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