CVE-2015-5162

high

Published 2016-10-07 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:8.0.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`2:8.0.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`2:8.0.0-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:8.0.0-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:8.0.0-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	cinder	`<7.0.2`	`7.0.2`
PyPI	cinder	`>=8.0.0,<9.0.0`	`9.0.0`
PyPI	glance	`<14.0.0`	`14.0.0`
PyPI	nova	`<12.0.4`	`12.0.4`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
openstack	cinder	`7.0.2`
openstack	cinder	`8.0.0`
openstack	cinder	`8.1.0`
openstack	glance	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.0"}`
openstack	glance	`11.0.1`
openstack	glance	`12.0.0`
openstack	nova	`{"endIncluding":"12.0.3"}`
openstack	nova	`13.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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