Heap-based buffer overflow in the virtio_load function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted config length in a savevm image.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-0182 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue does affect the versions of kvm package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue does affect the versions of qemu-kvm package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
| Base Score | 3.7 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:0888 | 2014-07-24 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2014:0927 | 2014-07-23 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:1268 | 2014-09-22 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:0888 | 2014-07-24 |
| RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 (rhev-hypervisor6) | RHSA-2014:0674 | 2014-06-09 |
| RHEV Agents (vdsm) (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:0744 | 2014-06-10 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2014:0743 | 2014-06-10 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Fix deferred |
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