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FKIE_CVE-2016-7498

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-09-27 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:53

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/8	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/1	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93068	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-011.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/8	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/1	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93068	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-011.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	openstack	compute_\(nova\)	13.0.0

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CVE-2016-7498 (GCVE-0-2016-7498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-27 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:57

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93068	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-011.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/8	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-09-21 00:00

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