CVE-2013-1838 Information

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/91303 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52580 http://secunia.com/advisories/52728 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html https://review.openstack.org//c/24451/ https://review.openstack.org//c/24452/ https://review.openstack.org//c/24453/