CVE-2014-8333

Publication date 31 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nova	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

requires use with unsupported VMware ESX driver. This is not compiled in to libvirt in the Ubuntu archive, which makes this code path unavailable in Ubuntu

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
nova	Upstream: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/118595/ Upstream: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/125492/

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://review.openstack.org/125492
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8333