Buffer overflow in OpenStack Folsom

CVE-2013-4261

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (76.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.