CVE-2013-4179

Publication date 8 August 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nova	13.10 saucy	Not affected
	13.04 raring	Fixed 1:2013.1.3-0ubuntu1.1
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 not affected per upstream Ubuntu 13.04 has fix in raring-updates

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
nova	Other: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2000-1
Nova vulnerabilities
23 October 2013

USN-2005-1
Cinder vulnerabilities
23 October 2013

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4179