| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-248-1, DLA-249-1, DLA-268-1, DSA-3259-1, DSA-3262-1, DSA-3274-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 785424 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:8.2.1+ds-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:8.2.2+ds-2 | fixed | |
| virtualbox (PTS) | sid/contrib | 7.0.16-dfsg-2 | fixed |
| xen (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | source | squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze5 | DLA-248-1 | ||
| qemu | source | wheezy | 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u7 | |||
| qemu | source | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12 | DSA-3259-1 | ||
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.3+dfsg-3 | |||
| qemu-kvm | source | squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze12 | DLA-249-1 | ||
| qemu-kvm | source | wheezy | 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u7 | |||
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| virtualbox | source | wheezy | 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u5 | DSA-3274-1 | ||
| virtualbox | source | jessie | 4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u2 | DSA-3274-1 | ||
| virtualbox | source | (unstable) | 4.3.28-dfsg-1 | 785424 | ||
| virtualbox-ose | source | squeeze | 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze4 | DLA-268-1 | ||
| virtualbox-ose | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| xen | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| xen | source | wheezy | 4.1.4-3+deb7u6 | DSA-3262-1 | ||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.4.0-1 | |||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
[squeeze] - xen <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
Xen switched to qemu-system in 4.4.0-1
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html
[squeeze] - xen-qemu-dm-4.0 <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2015-3456-2542656.html
http://venom.crowdstrike.com/