Divide By Zero Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions <2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1479068
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Mar 2014

Introduced: 26 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-369  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 qemu-guest-agent to version 2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:0420.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a zero value in the (1) tracks field to the seek_to_sector function in block/parallels.c or (2) extent_size field in the bochs function in block/bochs.c.

CVSS Scores

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