CVE-2014-0142

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-369

Description

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.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.0.0

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8e53abbc20d08ae3ec30c2054e1161314ad9501d
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9302e863aa8baa5d932fc078967050c055fa1a7f
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078201
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8e53abbc20d08ae3ec30c2054e1161314ad9501d
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9302e863aa8baa5d932fc078967050c055fa1a7f
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0420.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0421.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078201

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