CVE-2014-3640

low
Published 2014-11-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3640

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04707.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04598.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg03543.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.1+dfsg-5
debian debianbullseyefixed2.1+dfsg-5
debian debianforkyfixed2.1+dfsg-5
debian debiansidfixed2.1+dfsg-5
debian debiantrixiefixed2.1+dfsg-5

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu2.0.0
qemuqemu2.0.2
qemuqemu2.1.0
qemuqemu2.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.