VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-9718
CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-04-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.