Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries, due to missing bounds checks for block_size and logical_sector_size variables. These are used to derive other fields like 'sectors_per_block' etc. A user able to alter the Qemu disk image could ise this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS.
CVE-2014-0148
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-09-30. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 22.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 29, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d7678dec4761acdc43439da6ceda41a703ba1a6
- secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
- secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
- secalert@redhathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/8
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078212
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg04994.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d7678dec4761acdc43439da6ceda41a703ba1a6
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/8
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078212
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg04994.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2014-0148(5)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2014:0674Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 3.4.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2014:0434Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
- RHSA-2014:0435Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
- RHSA-2014:0420Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update
- RHSA-2014:0421Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.5-20140603.2.el6ev | 2014-06-09 | redhat |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8 | 2014-04-24 | redhat |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8 | 2014-04-22 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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