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CVE-2018-10908

Published: Aug 9, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

It was found that vdsm before version 4.20.37 invokes qemu-img on untrusted inputs without limiting resources. By uploading a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause the qemu-img process to consume unbounded amounts of memory of CPU time, causing a denial of service condition that could potentially impact other users of the host.

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	vdsm	affected `4.20.37`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html

x_refsource_MISC

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/

x_refsource_MISC

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