{"id":"CVE-2013-6437","details":"The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.","aliases":["GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8"],"modified":"2026-01-27T04:11:50.935088Z","published":"2014-03-06T15:55:28Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:11:50.935088Z","references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}