CVE-2014-0223: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 1.7.1; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.1.3 only; version 0.1.4 only; …
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11.0 only

Published 2014-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.