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CVE-2014-0146 (GCVE-0-2014-0146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:05
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Summary
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
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-03-26 00:00
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