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CVE-2014-0148

Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a Qemu

    before 2.0

References 6

rhn.redhat.com

openwall.com

git.qemu.org

bugzilla.redhat.com

lists.gnu.org