CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2014-9718
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.9
EPSS
0.41%
Original NVD 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.