CVE-2014-0145

Publication date 26 March 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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).

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	13.10 saucy	Ignored end of life
	12.10 quantal	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release
qemu-kvm	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	13.10 saucy	Not in release
	12.10 quantal	Ignored end of life
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.17
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.24

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qemu	Other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg04994.html Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c165f7758009a4f793c1fc19ebb69cf55313450b Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c05e4667be91b46ab42b5a11babf8e84d476cc6b Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f0dce23475b5af5da6b17b97c1765271307734b6
qemu-kvm	Other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg04994.html

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2342-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
8 September 2014