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nova: denial of service

Package(s):nova CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3371
Created:July 12, 2012 Updated:July 18, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Dan Prince discovered that the Nova scheduler, when using DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter, would make repeated database instance lookup calls based on passed scheduler hints. An authenticated attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1501-1 2012-07-11
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10939 2012-07-29
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