CVE-2014-5263

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-07-22
Bugzilla:
1126543: CVE-2014-5263 qemu: missing field list terminator in vmstate_xhci_event

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

vmstate_xhci_event in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU 1.6.0 does not terminate the list with the VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST macro, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access, infinite loop, and memory corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2014-5263 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the versions of kvm package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and versions of qemu-kvm package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 because they did not backport the commit that
introduced this issue.

This issue does not affect the versions of qemu-kvm package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 because the layout of qemu-kvm binary does not
allow successful exploitation of this flaw.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.7
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-kvm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Not affected

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