CVE-2014-0146: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 1.7.1; version 2.0.0 only

Published 2017-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.