CVE-2018-10908
highpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.8–7.1
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affected products (3)
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references (12)
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- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.htmlcnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908cnnvd
- https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/cnnvd
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624enisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908enisa_euvd
- https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/enisa_euvd
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