CVE-2014-9718

NameCVE-2014-9718
DescriptionThe (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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3259-1
Debian Bugs781250

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12DSA-3259-1
qemusource(unstable)1:2.3+dfsg-1unimportant781250
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

[wheezy] - qemu <postponed> (Can be fixed along in later update)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <postponed> (Can be fixed along in later update)
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=3251bdcf1c67427d964517053c3d185b46e618e8 (v2.2.0-rc2)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/24/4
Per maintainer not a security issue:
Qemu either leaks memory or loops infinitely. Memory leakage can be easily
mitigated using some kind of resource limits in security-sensitive environments,
and looping can trivially be done inside the virtual machine just fine, achieving
the same effect

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