| Name | CVE-2014-2573 |
| Description | The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 750144 |
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) | 2014.1-9 | | | 750144 |
Notes
[wheezy] - nova <not-affected> (Vulnerable code in 2013.2 to 2013.2.2)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418