Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1942-01 – OpenStack Networking is a pluggable, scalable, and API-driven system that provisions networking services to virtual machines. Its main function is to manage connectivity to and from virtual machines. As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, ‘neutron’ replaces ‘quantum’ as the core component of OpenStack Networking. A denial of service flaw was found in the way neutron handled the ‘dns_nameservers’ parameter. By providing specially crafted ‘dns_nameservers’ values, an authenticated user could use this flaw to crash the neutron service.