CVE-2024-31420: KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw

April 3, 2024

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.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951
github.com/advisories/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g
github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420

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