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CVE-2015-3456

Date: May 13, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.0

Related Resources (53)

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1000.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-3456

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37053/

Url: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html

Url: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/venom

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158072.html

Url: https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1128-security-advisory-10

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00014.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3456

Url: https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa95

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0998.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Url: http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/2015-05-19-cve-2015-3456-venom-vulnerability

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-27

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00001.html

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143229451215900&w=2

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00009.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032917

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3274

Url: http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10693

Url: http://www1.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-438937.htm

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1003.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00018.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1011.html

Url: https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/05/13/venom-dont-get-bitten/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3456

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032311

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00019.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143387998230996&w=2

Url: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1002.html

Url: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10118

Url: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1444903

Url: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e907746266721f305d67bc0718795fedee2e824c

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0999.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1004.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1001.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74640

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032306

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00013.html

Url: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201078

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Url: http://venom.crowdstrike.com/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00021.html

Url: https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3262

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-3456

Severity Score

8.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.0
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.7
Access Vector (AV):	ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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