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CVE-2014-8333

Publication date 31 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nova 14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

requires use with unsupported VMware ESX driver. This is not compiled in to libvirt in the Ubuntu archive, which makes this code path unavailable in Ubuntu

Patch details

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

Package Patch details
nova