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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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-248-1 qemu security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-249-1 qemu-kvm security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-268-1 virtualbox-ose security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3259-1 qemu security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3262-1 xen security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3274-1 virtualbox security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2608-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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References
Link Providers
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e907746266721f305d67bc0718795fedee2e824c cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10693 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158072.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00013.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00018.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00019.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00021.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143229451215900&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143387998230996&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0998.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0999.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1011.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201078 cve-icon cve-icon
http://venom.crowdstrike.com/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3262 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3274 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/2015-05-19-cve-2015-3456-venom-vulnerability cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74640 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032306 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032311 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032917 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www1.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-438937.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1444903 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa95 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10118 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3456 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-27 cve-icon cve-icon
https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/05/13/venom-dont-get-bitten/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/venom cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1128-security-advisory-10 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3456 cve-icon
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37053/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456.html cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:47:57.892Z

Reserved: 2015-04-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-3456

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-05-13T18:59:00.157

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-3456

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3456 - Bugzilla

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