CVE-2013-4261

Upstream information

CVE-2013-4261 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 836088 [CLOSED / INVALID]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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