CVE-2014-0142

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-03-26
CWE:
CWE-369
Bugzilla:
1078201: CVE-2014-0142 qemu: crash by possible division by zero

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a zero value in the (1) tracks field to the seek_to_sector function in block/parallels.c or (2) extent_size field in the bochs function in block/bochs.c.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0142 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of kvm package as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue affects the versions of qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
RHEV Agents (vdsm) (qemu-kvm-rhev) RHSA-2014:0421 2014-04-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev) RHSA-2014:0435 2014-04-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (qemu-kvm) RHSA-2014:0420 2014-04-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev) RHSA-2014:0434 2014-04-24
RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 (rhev-hypervisor6) RHSA-2014:0674 2014-06-09

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Fix deferred

Acknowledgements

These issues were discovered by Kevin Wolf of Red Hat Inc.

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