CVE-2014-0223
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6 · CWE-189
4.6CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67391
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02156.htmlExploit