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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-0145: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-0145: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
02/14/2023

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).

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

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