CVE-2014-9718 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU versions 1.0 through 2.1.3, affecting its IDE functionality, specifically the BMDMA and AHCI HBA interfaces. A guest OS user can trigger this by providing a PRDT with zero complete sectors, leading to host OS memory consumption, an infinite loop, or a system crash. With a CVSS score of 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring local access and low attack complexity to achieve a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:1.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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