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CVE-2014-3640

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 07, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.4 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3640
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c in QEMU before 2.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Debian_linuxDebian7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatqemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-86.el7*
RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7*
QemuUbuntudevel*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
QemuUbuntutrusty*
QemuUbuntutrusty/esm*
QemuUbuntuutopic*
Qemu-kvmUbuntulucid*
Qemu-kvmUbuntuprecise*

Potential Mitigations

References

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