Bug 1194697 (CVE-2014-9684, CVE-2015-1881) - CVE-2014-9684 CVE-2015-1881 openstack-glance: potential resource exhaustion and denial of service using images manipulation API
Summary: CVE-2014-9684 CVE-2015-1881 openstack-glance: potential resource exhaustion a...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-9684, CVE-2015-1881
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1197578 1215919
Blocks: 1194702
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-20 14:55 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:38 UTC (History)
27 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openstack-glance 2014.2.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Multiple flaws were found in the glance task API that could cause untracked image data to be left in the back end. A malicious user could use these flaws to deliberately accumulate untracked image data, and cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:38:58 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
CVE-2015-1881 Juno Patch (4.20 KB, patch)
2015-03-05 04:40 UTC, Garth Mollett 		no flags Details | Diff
CVE-2014-9684 Juno Patch (3.68 KB, patch)
2015-03-05 04:42 UTC, Garth Mollett 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0938 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openstack-glance security and bug fix update 2015-05-05 17:08:26 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-20 14:55:53 UTC 
Following vulnerability has been reported in Openstack Glance:

Title: Glance import task leaks image in backend
Reporter: Abhishek Kekane (NTT)
Products: Glance
Affects: 2014.2 versions through 2014.2.2

Description:
Abhishek Kekane from NTT reported a vulnerability in the Glance import task.
By creating numerous images using the task API and deleting them, an
authenticated attacker may accumulate untracked image data in the backend
resulting in potential resource exhaustion and denial of service. All glance
setups using API v2 are affected.

References:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1420696
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1422716

2 CVEs were assigned to this issue: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/603
Comment 1 Garth Mollett 2015-03-02 05:47:15 UTC 
Created openstack-glance tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1197578]
Comment 4 Garth Mollett 2015-03-05 04:40:36 UTC 
Created attachment 998154 [details]
CVE-2015-1881 Juno Patch
Comment 5 Garth Mollett 2015-03-05 04:42:16 UTC 
Created attachment 998155 [details]
CVE-2014-9684 Juno Patch
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-05 13:09:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 6 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:0938 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html
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