Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1330060
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 31 Oct 2014
Introduced: 31 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-9718 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcacard-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools package and not the libcacard-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality in QEMU 1.0 through 2.1.3 have multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allows guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73316
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=3251bdcf1c67427d964517053c3d185b46e618e8
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9718
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/20/7
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3251bdcf1c67427d964517053c3d185b46e618e8