Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2014-0146

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.

Affected products

QEMU/Qemu5 versions
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.7.1
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/8nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044nvd

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