IBM Security Bulletin: Potential Nova denial of service through compressed disk images (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

By using malicious compressed qcow2 disk images, an authenticated user may consume large amounts of disk space for each image, potentially resulting in a Denial of Service attack on Nova compute nodes (CVE-2013-4463). Moreover, in the non-default case where...



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