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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.7 HIGHAV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

15.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2015-05-13

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• orf53975/poisonfrog0★ · 2018-04-11
• vincentbernat/cve-2015-345613★ · 2015-05-27

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37053

Security advisories

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74640
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10118

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-8174