Bug 1154890 (CVE-2014-8333)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8333 openstack-nova: Nova VMware instance in resize state may leak
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, akscram, alexander.sakhnov, aortega, apevec, apevec, ayoung, berrange, bfilippov, chrisw, dallan, dasmith, davidx, gkotton, gmollett, itamar, jonathansteffan, jose.castro.leon, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mlvov, mmagr, ndipanov, pbrady, p, rbryant, rk, sbauza, sclewis, sferdjao, sgordon, vladanovic, vromanso, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	openstack-nova 2014.1.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the OpenStack Compute (nova) VMWare driver, which could allow an authenticated user to delete an instance while it was in the resize state, causing the instance to remain on the back end. A malicious user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by exhausting all available resources on the system.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-06-19 07:01:15 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1154892, 1154893, 1196564, 1196565
Bug Blocks:	1154891, 1194087

Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-21 00:56:12 UTC

The OpenStack project reports:

""
Title: Nova VMware instance in resize state may leak
Reporter: Zhu Zhu (IBM)
Products: Nova
Versions: up to 2014.1.3

Description:
Zhu Zhu from IBM reported a vulnerability in Nova VMware driver. If an
authenticated user deletes an instance while it is in resize state, it
will cause the original instance to not be deleted. An attacker can use
this to launch a denial of service attack. All Nova VMware setups are
affected.
""

CVE request:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/408

References:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1359138
https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=d71445c7d2d2921d10a08f82330f0ab8ef4f7df2

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-10-21 01:01:41 UTC

Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1154892]

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-10-22 01:39:29 UTC

MITRE assigned CVE-2014-8333 to this issue:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/414

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 14:33:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2015:0844 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 14:34:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:0843 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html