CVE-2014-3640
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c in QEMU before 2.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-476
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (35th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3598)
- Published
- November 7, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3598 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- qemu / qemu
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux hpc node
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
References
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg03543.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04598.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg04707.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3045(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144818(Issue Tracking)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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