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.
Published: 2018-08-09
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-2964 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.
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Ovirt Vdsm
Redhat Enterprise Linux Virtualization
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:54:35.199Z

Reserved: 2018-05-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-10908

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-09T19:29:00.207

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:42:16.757

Link: CVE-2018-10908

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-08-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-10908 - Bugzilla

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