MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g

KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw

Details

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

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Affected packages

Go/kubevirt.io/kubevirt

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420[ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951[WEB]
https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt[PACKAGE]