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CVE-2015-3456 Detail

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.


Evaluator Description

Though the VENOM vulnerability is also agnostic of the guest operating system, an attacker (or an attacker’s malware) would need to have administrative or root privileges in the guest operating system in order to exploit VENOM

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e907746266721f305d67bc0718795fedee2e824c CVE, MITRE
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10693 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158072.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00009.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00013.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00014.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00018.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00019.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00021.html CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143229451215900&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143387998230996&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0998.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0999.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1000.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1001.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1002.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1003.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1004.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1011.html CVE, MITRE
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201078 CVE, MITRE
http://venom.crowdstrike.com/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3262 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3274 CVE, MITRE
http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/2015-05-19-cve-2015-3456-venom-vulnerability CVE, MITRE
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74640 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032306 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032311 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032917 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www1.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-438937.htm CVE, MITRE
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html CVE, MITRE
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1444903 CVE, MITRE
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa95 CVE, MITRE
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 CVE, MITRE
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10118 CVE, MITRE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 CVE, MITRE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 CVE, MITRE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-27 CVE, MITRE
https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/05/13/venom-dont-get-bitten/ CVE, MITRE
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/venom CVE, MITRE
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1128-security-advisory-10 CVE, MITRE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37053/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-3456
NVD Published Date:
05/13/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE