CVE-2013-4261

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4261
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-10-29 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-10-30 13:53:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenStack 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Folsom All All All All
Application Openstack Grizzly All All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 3.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
999271 – (CVE-2013-4261) CVE-2013-4261 OpenStack: openstack-nova-compute console-log DoS CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
oss-sec: [OSSA 2013-026] Potential denial of service on Nova when using Qpid (CVE-2013-4261) MLIST seclists.org Patch
999164 – Some sequence of characters in console-log can cause nova-compute death CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Patch
Bug #1215091 “[OSSA 2013-026] Some sequence of characters in con...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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