CVE-2014-5388

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
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: 2014-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-193

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
QEMU: through 2.1.3

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa365d7cd11185237471823a5a33d36765454e16
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/438
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/440
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132956
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg03338.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa365d7cd11185237471823a5a33d36765454e16
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/438
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/440
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132956
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg03338.html

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