CVE-2014-9718

A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table (PRDT) data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue affects the version of the qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, a future update may address this flaw.

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