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CVE-2018-10908

vdsm: calls to qemu-img are not protected by prlimit/ulimit

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 8, 2018

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

It was found that vdsm would invoke 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.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance lifecycle. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate, and it is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Virtualization 3. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Virtualization Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev/

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling