CVE-2015-5162
A resource vulnerability in the OpenStack Compute (nova), Block Storage (cinder), and Image (glance) services was found in their use of qemu-img. An unprivileged user could consume as much as 4 GB of RAM on the compute host by uploading a malicious image. This flaw could lead possibly to host out-of-memory errors and negatively affect other running tenant instances.
oslo.concurrency has been updated to support process limits ('prlimit'), which is needed to fix this flaw.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5162 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Low |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2017:0282 | 2017-02-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-cinder) | RHSA-2017:0156 | 2017-01-19 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | RHSA-2016:2923 | 2016-12-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-cinder) | RHSA-2017:0165 | 2017-01-19 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | RHSA-2016:2991 | 2016-12-21 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-cinder) | RHSA-2017:0153 | 2017-01-19 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | openstack-glance | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | openstack-nova | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | openstack-cinder | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | openstack-nova | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | openstack-glance | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | openstack-glance | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | openstack-nova | Will not fix |