Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova Image Parser

Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova Image Parser

CVE-2015-5162 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.

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