CVE-2015-3456

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-05-13
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the host's QEMU process corresponding to the guest.

See more information about CVE-2015-3456 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.5
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle VM version 2.2 (xen)	OVMSA-2015-0059	2015-05-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (kvm)	ELSA-2015-1003	2015-05-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (xen)	ELSA-2015-1002	2015-05-13
Oracle Linux version 6 (qemu-kvm)	ELSA-2015-0998	2015-05-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (qemu-kvm)	ELSA-2015-0999	2015-05-13
Oracle VM version 3.2 (xen)	OVMSA-2015-0058	2015-05-14
Oracle VM version 3.3 (xen)	OVMSA-2015-0057	2015-05-14