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CVE-2014-3640 Detail

Description

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.


Evaluator Description

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Metrics

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg03543.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04598.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04707.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3045 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144818 Issue Tracking 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-3640
NVD Published Date:
11/07/2014
NVD Last Modified:
02/12/2023
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.