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F5 Networks: K16620 (CVE-2015-3456): QEMU vulnerability CVE-2015-3456

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F5 Networks: K16620 (CVE-2015-3456): QEMU vulnerability CVE-2015-3456

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/13/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2017
Modified
12/20/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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