CVE-2014-9718

QEMU <2.1.3 - Denial of Service

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The (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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/20/7
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73316

Scores

EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 42.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (20)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
qemu/qemu 1.0 (5 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 1.0.1
qemu/qemu 1.1 (5 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 1.4.1
qemu/qemu 1.4.2
qemu/qemu 1.5.0 (4 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 1.5.1
qemu/qemu 1.5.2
qemu/qemu 1.5.3
... and 10 more
Published Apr 21, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026