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CVE-2014-2894

QEMU: out of bounds buffer accesses, guest triggerable via IDE SMART

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 14, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Off-by-one error in the cmd_smart function in the smart self test in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU before 2.0 allows local users to have unspecified impact via a SMART EXECUTE OFFLINE command that triggers a buffer underflow and memory corruption.

Statement

This issue does not affect the versions of kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer