OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9684.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1881
Reference (s):
- BID:72694
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72694
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1420696
- MLIST:[openstack-announce] 20150223 [OSSA 2015-004] Glance import task leaks image in backend (CVE-2014-9684, CVE-2015-1881)
- URL: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-February/000336.html