CVE-2013-4185 Information

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations which triggers a large number of update requests.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041