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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-0146: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-0146: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
02/14/2023

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)

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

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