CVE-2015-2152
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by (1) setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support, or connecting to the VNC server on (2) ::1 or (3) 127.0.0.1, when not compiled with SDL support.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- xen:xen
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068