4.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-9718

Published: 21/04/2015 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality in QEMU 1.0 up to and including 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU ...
Debian Bug report logs - #781250 qemu: CVE-2014-9718 CVE-2015-1779 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:48:13 UTC Severity: important Tags: confirmed, security, upstream Fixe ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution: CVE-2014-9718 It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible to denial of service CVE-2015-1779 Daniel P Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the VNC web socket decoder CVE-2015-2756 Jan Beulich discovered tha ...
A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table (PRDT) data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system ...