CVE-2024-4467

high

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time, leading to denial of service or read/write to an existing external file.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278875

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4467

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4727

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4724

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4420

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4374

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4373

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4372

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4278

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4277

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4276

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-02

Updated: 2024-09-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High