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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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DLA-248-1 | qemu security update |
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DLA-249-1 | qemu-kvm security update |
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DLA-268-1 | virtualbox-ose security update |
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DSA-3259-1 | qemu security update |
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DSA-3262-1 | xen security update |
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DSA-3274-1 | virtualbox security update |
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USN-2608-1 | QEMU vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T05:47:57.892Z
Reserved: 2015-04-29T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-3456

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-05-13T18:59:00.157
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-3456


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