CVE-2018-10908

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.

References

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-09

Updated: 2019-10-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

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

Severity: Medium