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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-3456: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-3456: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/13/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/29/2021

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-pvgrub
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-virtualbox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-virtualbox-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-pvgrub
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-xen-tools

References

  • https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2015-3456
  • 74640
  • CVE - 2015-3456
  • DSA-3259
  • DSA-3262
  • DSA-3274
  • Category I
  • Category II
  • V0060735
  • V0060741
  • 201602-01
  • 201604-03
  • 201612-27
  • 2015-A-0112
  • 2015-A-0115
  • RHSA-2015:0998
  • RHSA-2015:0999
  • RHSA-2015:1000
  • RHSA-2015:1001
  • RHSA-2015:1002
  • RHSA-2015:1003
  • RHSA-2015:1004
  • RHSA-2015:1011
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