USN-2608-1

Advisory lineage Upstream: 6 Downstream: 0
Published: 13 May 2015, 17:13
Last modified:04 Feb 2026, 02:53

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

13 May 2015, 17:13
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Feb 2026, 02:53
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities Jason Geffner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual floppy driver. This issue is known as VENOM. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2015-3456) Daniel P. Berrange discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VNC websockets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume memory, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-1779) Jan Beulich discovered that QEMU, when used with Xen, didn't properly restrict access to PCI command registers. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-2756)

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•qemu

    < 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11

References (4)