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Bug 1154890 - (CVE-2014-8333) CVE-2014-8333 openstack-nova: Nova VMware instance in resize state may leak
CVE-2014-8333 openstack-nova: Nova VMware instance in resize state may leak
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20140820,repor...
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Depends On: 1154892 1154893 1196564 1196565
Blocks: 1154891 1194087
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Reported: 2014-10-20 20:56 EDT by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2016-04-26 15:43 EDT (History)
35 users (show)

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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.
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Last Closed: 2015-06-19 03:01:15 EDT
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0843 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: openstack-nova security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-04-16 14:27:45 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0844 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: openstack-nova security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-04-16 14:27:38 EDT

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-20 20:56:12 EDT 
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.
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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 2014-10-20 21:01:41 EDT 
Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1154892]
Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-10-21 21:39:29 EDT 
MITRE assigned CVE-2014-8333 to this issue:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/414
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-04-16 10:33:12 EDT 
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 10:34:53 EDT 
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
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