CVE-2014-0223

medium
Published 2014-11-04 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse11.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.0+dfsg-6
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.0+dfsg-6
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.0+dfsg-6
debian debiansidfixed2.0.0+dfsg-6
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.0+dfsg-6

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"1.7.1"}
qemuqemu0.1.0
qemuqemu0.1.1
qemuqemu0.1.2
qemuqemu0.1.3
qemuqemu0.1.4
qemuqemu0.1.5
qemuqemu0.1.6
qemuqemu0.2.0
qemuqemu0.3.0
qemuqemu0.4.0
qemuqemu0.4.1
qemuqemu0.4.2
qemuqemu0.4.3
qemuqemu0.5.0
qemuqemu0.5.1
qemuqemu0.5.2
qemuqemu0.5.3
qemuqemu0.5.4
qemuqemu0.5.5
qemuqemu0.6.0
qemuqemu0.6.1
qemuqemu0.7.0
qemuqemu0.7.1
qemuqemu0.7.2
qemuqemu0.8.0
qemuqemu0.8.1
qemuqemu0.8.2
qemuqemu0.9.0
qemuqemu0.9.1
qemuqemu0.9.1-5
qemuqemu0.10.0
qemuqemu0.10.1
qemuqemu0.10.2
qemuqemu0.10.3
qemuqemu0.10.4
qemuqemu0.10.5
qemuqemu0.10.6
qemuqemu0.11.0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc1
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc2
qemuqemu0.11.1
qemuqemu0.12.0
qemuqemu0.12.1
qemuqemu0.12.2
qemuqemu0.12.3
qemuqemu0.12.4
qemuqemu0.12.5
qemuqemu0.13.0
qemuqemu0.14.0
qemuqemu0.14.1
qemuqemu0.15.0
qemuqemu0.15.1
qemuqemu0.15.2
qemuqemu1.0
qemuqemu1.0.1
qemuqemu1.1
qemuqemu1.4.1
qemuqemu1.4.2
qemuqemu1.5.0
qemuqemu1.5.1
qemuqemu1.5.2
qemuqemu1.5.3
qemuqemu1.6.0
qemuqemu1.6.1
qemuqemu1.6.2

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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