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** Changed in: nova/kilo
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387543

Title:
  [OSSA 2015-015] Resize/delete combo allows to overload nova-compute
  (CVE-2015-3241)

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) juno series:
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) kilo series:
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Security Advisory:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If user create instance, and resize it to larger flavor and than
  delete that instance, migration process does not stop. This allow
  user to repeat operation many times, causing overload to affected
  compute nodes over user quota.

  Affected installation: most drastic effect happens on 'raw-disk'
  instances without live migration. Whole raw disk (full size of the
  flavor) is copied during migration.

  If user delete instance it does not terminate rsync/scp keeping disk
  backing file opened regardless of removal by nova compute.

  Because rsync/scp of large disks is rather slow, it gives malicious
  user enough time to repeat that operation few hundred times, causing
  disk space depletion on compute nodes, huge impact on management
  network and so on.

  Proposed solution: abort migration (kill rsync/scp) as soon, as
  instance is deleted.

  Affected installation: Havana, Icehouse, probably Juno (not tested).

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