CVE-2012-2101

Description

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/novafrom 0, < 2012.1-2
• PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (13)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2101
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2101
• PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
• WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
• WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
• WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
• WEBhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb
• WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64
• WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-36.yaml
• WEBhttps://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
• WEBhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1