Description
Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling update_refcount() routine.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- QEMU
- Published
- 9/29/2022
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
qemu : qemufedoraproject : fedoraredhat : virtualizationredhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : enterprise_linux_eusredhat : enterprise_linux_openstack_platformredhat : enterprise_linux_serverredhat : enterprise_linux_server_ausredhat : enterprise_linux_server_tusredhat : enterprise_linux_workstation
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