OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-4161 OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2000-1 Nova vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:38:01.569Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2013-4261

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-10-29T22:55:02.613

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-4261

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4261 - Bugzilla

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