[Openstack-devel] Bug#708515: keystone: CVE-2013-2014 DoS via large POST requests

[Nico Golde]

Package: keystone
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following vulnerability was published for keystone.

CVE-2013-2014[0]:
| Concurrent requests with large POST body can crash the keystone process.
| This can be used by Malicious and lead to DOS to Cloud Service Provider.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

Upstream patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22661/

Seems to be fixed for experimental in 2013.1-1.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2014
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2014

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Nico Golde - XMPP: nion at jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA
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