CVE-2014-0146

MEDIUM

QEMU < 1.7.2 and 2.x < 2.0.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted QCOW2 Image

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The qcow2_open function in the (block/qcow2.c) in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshot_offset and nb_snapshots fields.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078232
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/8

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 29.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
qemu/qemu 2.0.0 rc0 (4 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu < 1.7.1
Published Aug 10, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026