Please Install the Updated Packages.

Loganathan Parthipan discovered that Nova did not verify the size of QCOW2 instance storage. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service by creating an image with a large virtual size with little data, then filling the virtual disk.

nova on Ubuntu 13.04 , Ubuntu 12.10 , Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2013-May/002117.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25