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CentOS: (CVE-2014-0146) CESA-2014:0420: qemu-kvm

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CentOS: (CVE-2014-0146) CESA-2014:0420: qemu-kvm

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/22/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/17/2018
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

The qcow2_open function in the (block/qcow2.c) in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshot_offset and nb_snapshots fields.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • centos-upgrade-qemu-img
  • centos-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • centos-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

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