CVE-2014-9718

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedApr 21, 2015
First seenApr 21, 2015

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemu1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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