Cyber Resilience

CVE-2014-0148

Medium

Published: 29 September 2022

Published
29 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
26 March 2014
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.2th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2014-0148 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Qemu Qemu. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries, due to missing bounds checks for block_size and logical_sector_size variables. These are used to derive other fields like…

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'sectors_per_block' etc. A user able to alter the Qemu disk image could ise this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

qemu
qemu
≤ 2.0.0
redhat
virtualization
3.0
redhat
enterprise linux desktop
6.0
redhat
enterprise linux eus
6.5
redhat
enterprise linux openstack platform
5
redhat
enterprise linux server
6.0
redhat
enterprise linux server aus
6.5
redhat
enterprise linux server tus
6.5
redhat
enterprise linux workstation
6.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

References