CVE-2014-3640 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the QEMU sosendto function (slirp/udp.c) affecting versions prior to 2.1.2, as well as Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat distributions. A local attacker can trigger a denial of service by sending a UDP packet with a zero-value source port and address, leading to access of an uninitialized socket. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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