CVE-2014-0223 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large image size which triggers a buffer overflow or out-of-bounds read.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67391 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02156.html