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CVE-2014-3461 (GCVE-0-2014-3461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-04 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:43
VLAI
Summary
hw/usb/bus.c in QEMU 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted savevm data, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to "USB post load checks."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qem… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-05-12 00:00
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