Integer Overflow or Wraparound 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
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1480905
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Mar 2014

Introduced: 26 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0147  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (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 before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling update_refcount() routine.

CVSS Scores

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