It was learned by the OpenStack community that running qemu-img on untrusted images without a format pre-specified can present a security risk. Furthermore, some of these specific image formats have inherently unsafe features. This is rooted in how qemu-img operates where all image drivers are loaded and attempt to evaluate the input data.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 Via RHSA-2024:7174 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7174
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 Via RHSA-2024:7594 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7594
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Via RHSA-2024:7941 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7941
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 Via RHSA-2024:8235 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8235
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Via RHSA-2024:8694 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9 Via RHSA-2024:9982 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9982
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Via RHSA-2025:0204 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0204