CVE-2013-4261
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.
Find out more about CVE-2013-4261 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2013:1199 | 2013-09-03 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | openstack-nova | Affected |
Acknowledgements
This issue was discovered by Jaroslav Henner of Red Hat.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation