Bug 1232782 (CVE-2015-3241) - CVE-2015-3241 openstack-nova: Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted
Summary: CVE-2015-3241 openstack-nova: Nova instance migration process does not stop w...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-3241
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: 1241367 1241368 1241369 1241370 1242027 1257393 1257789 1257790
Blocks: 1232783
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-17 13:12 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2023-05-12 21:55 UTC (History)
33 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-10-15 21:33:45 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Launchpad 1387543 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1723 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openstack-nova security update 2015-09-03 21:55:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1898 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openstack-nova security update 2015-10-15 16:28:37 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-17 13:12:05 UTC 
Title: Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is
deleted
Reporter: George Shuklin (Webzilla LTD)
Products: Nova
Affects: versions through 2014.1.4, and 2014.2 versions through
2014.2.3, and version 2015.1.0

Description:
George Shuklin from Webzilla LTD reported a vulnerability in Nova
migration process. By resizing and deleting an instance repeatedly an
authenticated user may overcome his quota and overload Nova computes
node resulting in a denial of service attack. All Nova setups are affected.

Upstream bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1387543
Comment 2 Garth Mollett 2015-07-09 06:38:22 UTC 
Created openstack-nova tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1241367]
Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1241370]
Comment 5 Garth Mollett 2015-08-26 05:31:55 UTC 
Upstream advisory:

https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.html
Comment 6 Garth Mollett 2015-08-27 01:02:07 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges George Shuklin of Webzilla LTD as the original reporter.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-03 17:56:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 7 For RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:1723 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1723
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-15 12:30:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 6
  OpenStack 5 for RHEL 7
  OpenStack 6 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:1898 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
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