CVE-2015-3456
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CVE-2015-3456 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. 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.. EPSS estimates a 15.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | <= 2.3.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Virtualization | 3.0 |
| Redhat | Openstack | 4.0 |
| Redhat | Openstack | 5.0 |
| Redhat | Openstack | 6.0 |
| Redhat | Openstack | 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 5 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 6.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Xen | Xen | 4.5.0 |
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