CVE-2013-4261 Information

Description

OpenStack 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.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271