CVE-2014-9718

Summary

CVECVE-2014-9718
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-04-21 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality in QEMU 1.0 through 2.1.3 have multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allows guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 rc4 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.1 rc4 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.4.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.4.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.5.3 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.6.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 1.7.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.0 - All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.0.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 rc3 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.0 rc5 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.1 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.2 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.1.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3259-1 qemu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
QEMU PRDT Data Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu: malicious PRDT flow from guest to host af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.qemu.org
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commit MITRE git.qemu.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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