USN-1438-1: Nova vulnerability
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
06/07/2012
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
07/09/2020
Description
Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.
Solution(s)
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