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CVE-2012-2101

Published: Jun 07, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2101
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
NovaOpenstack2011.3 (including)2011.3 (including)
NovaOpenstack2012.1 (including)2012.1 (including)
NovaOpenstackfolsom (including)folsom (including)
NovaUbuntudevel*
NovaUbuntunatty*
NovaUbuntuoneiric*
NovaUbuntuprecise*
NovaUbuntuquantal*

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