CVE-2014-0145
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
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).
Find out more about CVE-2014-0145 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 | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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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 Stefan Hajnoczi of Red Hat Inc.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation