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CVE-2014-0222

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0222 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the qcow_open function of QEMU versions prior to 1.7.2, impacting QEMU and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted QCOW version 1 image with a large L2 table. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to a crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0212 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-60.el7_0.5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:1.5.3-60.el7_0.7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.14
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.5-20140821.1.el6ev
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0222Moderate

Qemu: qcow1: validate L2 table size to avoid integer overflows

May 12, 2014

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
lists.nongnu.org / archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02155.html
Exploit
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3044
securityfocus.com / bid/67357