CVE-2014-0146

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.5) in qemu qemu. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2017-08-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

qemu:qemu

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11b128f4062dd7f89b14abc8877ff20d41b28be9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/8

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