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.
Published: 2015-04-21
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3259-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-9525 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2724-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:55:04.598Z

Reserved: 2015-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-9718

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-04-21T16:59:00.077

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-9718

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-10-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-9718 - Bugzilla

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