Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Aug 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-10908
CVE-2018-10908
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.
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Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
4- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- gerrit.ovirt.orgnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.htmlnvdMailing ListVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624nvdThird Party Advisory
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