| Name | CVE-2016-7498 |
| Description | OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression. |
| 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 (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:18.1.0-6+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:22.0.1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2:22.4.0-1~deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2:26.2.2-1~deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:30.0.0-1 | 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 | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| nova | source | (unstable) | 2:13.1.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - nova <not-affected> (Vulnerable code (re)introduced later)
[wheezy] - nova <not-affected> (Vulnerable code (re)introduced later)
Relates to OSSA-2015-017 (CVE-2015-3280) which was previously fixed
and then reintroduced with 13.0.0 and refixed in 13.1.0.