CVE-2018-10908
MEDIUMovirt vdsm < 4.20.37 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Resource Consumption in qemu-img
Title source: llmDescription
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