Vulnerability CVE-2024-4467


Published: 2024-07-02

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.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4467
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278875

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