Qemu, as used in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and possibly other products, when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend, allows local OS guest users to gain privileges via a crafted escape VT100 sequence that triggers the overwrite of a "device model's address space."
References
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http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git%3Ba=log cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00016.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00024.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00027.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00051.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1233.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1234.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1235.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1236.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50528 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50530 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50632 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50689 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50860 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/50913 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-17_Qemu_VT100_emulation_vulnerability cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2543 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2545 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/10 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55413 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1590-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3515 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3515 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-11-23T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:05:12.755Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-3515

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-23T20:55:03.523

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:34:24.947

Link: CVE-2012-3515

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2012-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-3515 - Bugzilla