CVE-2024-31420 (GCVE-0-2024-31420)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-03 14:01
Modified
2025-02-07 03:17
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Version: 4.15.0
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4     cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
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