UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3456

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3456

    Published: 13 May 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-3456
    Aliases:
    USN-2608-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3456, http://venom.crowdstrike.com/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2608-1, http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3456

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11

    Affected versions

    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High