Off-by-one Error The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-QEMUKVM-630364
  • published15 Nov 2014
  • disclosed15 Nov 2014

Introduced: 15 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-5388  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.