CVE-2014-9684

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-02-19
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1194697: CVE-2014-9684 CVE-2015-1881 openstack-glance: potential resource exhaustion and denial of service using images manipulation API
Multiple flaws were found in the glance task API that could cause untracked image data to be left in the back end. A malicious user could use these flaws to deliberately accumulate untracked image data, and cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.3
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
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 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-glance) RHSA-2015:0938 2015-05-05

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) openstack-glance Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-glance Not affected

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