UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4463

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4463

    Published: 6 Feb 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-4463
    Aliases:
    USN-2247-1

    Summary:

    Details: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4463, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2247-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4463

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nova

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2

    Affected versions

    1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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