CVE-2015-3280

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-09-01
CWE:
CWE-772
Bugzilla:
1257942: CVE-2015-3280 openstack-nova: Deleting instances in resize state fails
A flaw was found in the way OpenStack Compute (nova) handled the resize state. If an authenticated user deleted an instance while it was in the resize state, it could cause the original instance to not be deleted from the compute node it was running on, allowing the user to cause a denial of service.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector 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 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-nova) RHSA-2015:1898 2015-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 (openstack-nova) RHSA-2015:1898 2015-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-nova) RHSA-2015:1898 2015-10-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-nova) RHSA-2015:1898 2015-10-15

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack upstream project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges George Shuklin from Webzilla LTD and Tushar Patil from NTT DATA, Inc. as the original reporters.

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