CVE-2018-10908

MEDIUM

ovirt vdsm < 4.20.37 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Resource Consumption in qemu-img

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0118
EPSS Percentile 63.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
ovirt/vdsm < 4.20.37
redhat/virtualization 4.0
Published Aug 09, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026