CVE-2014-5388

medium
Published 2014-11-15 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.6

Description

Off-by-one error in the pci_read function in the ACPI PCI hotplug interface (hw/acpi/pcihp.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information and have other unspecified impact related to a crafted PCI device that triggers memory corruption.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
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
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.1.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-193

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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