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CVE-2014-0223
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)…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.60%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 67391 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20140512 [PATCH 4/5] qcow1: Validate image size (CVE-2014-0223) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0929 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [Qemu-stable] 20140723 [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.7.2 Stable released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-6970 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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