OSSA-2014-032: Nova VMware driver still leaks rescued images

Date:

October 02, 2014

CVE:

CVE-2014-3608

Affects

  • Nova: up to 2014.1.2

Description

Garth Mollett from Red Hat reported an incomplete fix to OSSA-2014-017 (CVE-2014-2573), a vulnerability affecting Nova. If an authenticated user places an instance into rescue, and then issues a suspend command it will cause the instance to enter an ERROR state. Nova does not clean up an instance in this state correctly upon deletion. An attacker can use this to launch a denial of service attack. Only setups using the Nova VMware driver are affected by this flaw.

Patches

Credits

  • Garth Mollett from Red Hat (CVE-2014-3608)

References