| Name | CVE-2013-6437 |
| Description | The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nova (PTS) | jessie | 2014.1.3-11 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2:14.0.0-4+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 2:18.1.0-6 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2:18.1.0-6+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:22.0.1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:26.1.0-4 | fixed |
| sid | 2:29.0.1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nova | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| nova | source | (unstable) | 2013.2.2 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - nova <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)