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openstack-keystone: denial of service

Package(s):openstack-keystone CVE #(s):CVE-2013-2014
Created:July 22, 2013 Updated:July 24, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

Yaguang Tang reports:

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.

The OpenStack project has confirmed:

Concurrent Keystone POST requests with large body messages are held in memory without filtering or rate limiting, this can lead to resource exhaustion on the Keystone server.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2013-10467 2013-07-20

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