CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-3471

Use After Free

Published: Jan 12, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
5.7 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-free vulnerability in hw/pci/pcie.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) via hotplug and hotunplug operations of Virtio block devices.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.1.2 (including)
Qemu Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty/esm *

Potential Mitigations

References