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CVE-2014-9718

N/A
Published: April 21, 2015 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:18 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQEMU

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (4)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3251bdcf1c67427d964517053c3d185b46e618e8
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/20/7
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73316

CVSS

4.9MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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