CVE-2015-3456

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

10.0

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

32.263

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in QEMU 2.3.0	Windows
Machine emulator and virtualizer (USN-2608-1) qemu-system_2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.7_i386.deb	Linux
Machine emulator and virtualizer (USN-2608-1) qemu-system_2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.7_amd64.deb	Linux
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability (CVE-2015-3456)	NCM

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234