CVE-2014-0145

high
Published 2017-08-10 ยท 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 v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-1

Application impact

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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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