NULL Pointer Dereference 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
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1480851
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Mar 2014

Introduced: 26 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0146  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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.

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.

CVSS Scores

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