CVE-2014-3471

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in hw/pci/pcie.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) via hotplug and hotunplug operations of Virtio block devices.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.1.2; 2.1.2-r1

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-01.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/23/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68145
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112271
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg05283.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-01.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/23/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68145
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112271
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg05283.html

Get alerted when CVE-2014-3471 or the next vulnerability affects your stack