CVE-2014-0145

high
Published 2017-08-10 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.6
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large (1) L1 table in the qcow2_snapshot_load_tmp in the QCOW 2 block driver (block/qcow2-snapshot.c) or (2) uncompressed chunk, (3) chunk length, or (4) number of sectors in the DMG block driver (block/dmg.c).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0145

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg04994.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.0+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.0+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.0+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.0+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.0+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"1.7.1"}
qemuqemu2.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.