CVE-2015-3456

Publication date 13 May 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	15.04 vivid	Fixed in 1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.1
	14.10 utopic	Fixed in 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
qemu-kvm	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.10 utopic	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.22
virtualbox	15.04 vivid	Fixed in 4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu2
	14.10 utopic	Fixed in 4.3.18-dfsg-2ubuntu3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 4.3.10-dfsg-1ubuntu5
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.10
xen	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.10 utopic	Fixed in 4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.10.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed in 4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.6
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

CVE-2015-3456

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Notes

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References

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