CVE-2015-3456

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.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Arista Eos, Centos, Check Point Gaia, Kvm, Qemu, Red Hat, Suse

Qemu

≤ 2.3.0

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

7.7 HIGH

EPSS

15.3% (97th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-119

NVD status

Modified

Published

2015-05-13