CVE-2014-3461
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."
02 Description
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."
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.69% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-11-04 21:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:43Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-05-13
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ed369bf3e10c7030349dd6d46b9b0302fe967f4d90f04dd176e079afc0dfb24a
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:0743http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:0744http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-6970http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html
- article.gmane.org[qemu-devel] 20140512 [PATCH] usb: fix up post load checkshttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/272092
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qemu Fixed in 2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qemu Fixed in 2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qemu Fixed in 2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.