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title: "CVE-2014-3608\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2014-3608

Publication date 6 October 2014

Last updated 4 August 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Negligible**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote
authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service
(resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending
it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE:
this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3608?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| nova | 14.10 utopic | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Fixed 1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu1.1 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3608?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

requires use with unsupported VMware ESX driver. This is not
compiled in to libvirt in the Ubuntu archive, which makes this code path
unavailable in Ubuntu

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| nova | * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/94281/> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/109624/> |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3608)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3608)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-3608)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3608)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-2407-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-2407-1)
+ OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
+ 11 November 2014

### Other references

* <http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3608>