CVE-2014-9718 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9718?

CVE-2014-9718 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Apr 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9718?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9718?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-9718 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9718 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9718, GHSA-wc8f-g43g-pgxv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9718.