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.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/23/4 | patch mailing list third party advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112271 | patch third party advisory issue tracking |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-01.xml | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68145 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg05283.html | patch mailing list third party advisory |