Security Advisory SA52139 - OpenStack Keystone HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA52139

OpenStack Keystone HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA52139

Release Date

2013-02-11

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

OpenStack Keystone 2012.x

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CVE-2013-0270 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in OpenStack Keystone, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP requests and can be exploited to exhaust available memory via e.g. sending an overly long "tenant_name" within HTTP requests.

The vulnerability is reported in version Folsom (2012.2.1). Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Fixed in the source code repository.

Provided and/or discovered by
Dan Prince, Red Hat.

Original Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1099025
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909012

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