Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 6, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-1062
CVE-2018-1062
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in oVirt 4.1.x before 4.1.9, where the combination of Enable Discard and Wipe After Delete flags for VM disks managed by oVirt, could cause a disk to be incompletely zeroed when removed from a VM. If the same storage blocks happen to be later allocated to a new disk attached to another VM, potentially sensitive data could be revealed to privileged users of that VM.
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References
5- www.securityfocus.com/bid/103433nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0135nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- gerrit.ovirt.orgnvdVendor Advisory
- gerrit.ovirt.orgnvdVendor Advisory
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