CVE-2018-10908

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-10908
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-09 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:33:00 UTC
DescriptionIt 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ovirt Vdsm All All All All
Application Ovirt Vdsm All All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization 4.0 All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Re: [Qemu-block] [kubevirt-dev] Re: Converting qcow2 image on the fly to MISC lists.nongnu.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Gerrit Code Review MISC gerrit.ovirt.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
1605065 – (CVE-2018-10908) CVE-2018-10908 vdsm: calls to qemu-img are not protected by prlimit/ulimit CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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