Vulnerability CVE-2015-3456: Information

Description

The Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier and KVM, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and guest crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) FD_CMD_READ_ID, (2) FD_CMD_DRIVE_SPECIFICATION_COMMAND, or other unspecified commands, aka VENOM.

Severity: HIGH (7.7)

Published: May 13, 2015
Modified: Nov. 7, 2023
Error type identifier: CWE-119

Fixed packages

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

    1. Configuration 1

      cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End including
      2.3.0

      Configuration 2

      cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

      cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*