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CVE-2014-9718

15
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9718Moderate

Qemu: PRDT overflow from guest to host

Oct 31, 2014

References

git.qemu.org
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/04/20/7
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3259
securityfocus.com / bid/73316