Description
Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large image size, which triggers a buffer overflow or out-of-bounds read.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67391
Exploit mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02156.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html
Patch mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html
Scores
EPSS
0.0009
EPSS Percentile
25.8%
Details
CWE
CWE-189
Status
published
Products (45)
qemu/qemu
0.1.0
qemu/qemu
0.1.1
qemu/qemu
0.1.2
qemu/qemu
0.1.3
qemu/qemu
0.1.4
qemu/qemu
0.1.5
qemu/qemu
0.1.6
qemu/qemu
0.2.0
qemu/qemu
0.3.0
qemu/qemu
0.4.0
... and 35 more
Published
Nov 04, 2014
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026