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.
- EPSS
- 15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_virtualization
- redhat:openstack
- xen:xen
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e907746266721f305d67bc0718795fedee2e824c
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10693
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00013.html