Bug 999271 (CVE-2013-4261)

Summary: CVE-2013-4261 OpenStack: openstack-nova-compute console-log DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akscram, alexander.sakhnov, aortega, apevec, apevec, ayoung, bfilippov, breu, chrisw, dallan, d.busby, gkotton, gmollett, iheim, itamar, Jan.van.Eldik, jonathansteffan, jose.castro.leon, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mlvov, mmagr, ndipanov, p, rbryant, rhos-maint, sclewis, sdake, vkrizan, yeylon
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Bug Depends On: 999164, 999272, 999273, 999274, 999276, 999277    
Bug Blocks: 999281    

Description Kurt Seifried 2013-08-21 05:09:01 UTC
Jaroslav Henner (jhenner) reports:

When console-log is run often enough, it seems to be causing death of nova-compute.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2013-08-21 05:16:28 UTC
Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 999276]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 999277]

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2013-08-21 19:38:38 UTC
Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2013-09-03 04:52:57 UTC
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Jaroslav Henner of Red Hat.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-03 20:22:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:1199 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html