| Name | CVE-2012-3515 |
| Description | Qemu, as used in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and possibly other products, when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend, allows local OS guest users to gain privileges via a crafted escape VT100 sequence that triggers the overwrite of a "device model's address space." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2542-1, DSA-2543-1, DSA-2545-1 |
| NVD severity | high (attack range: local) |
| Debian Bugs | 686764 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7 | fixed | |
| stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u4 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 1:2.12+dfsg-3 | fixed | |
| xen (PTS) | jessie | 4.4.1-9+deb8u10 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 4.4.4lts4-0+deb8u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 | high | ||
| qemu | source | squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze2 | high | DSA-2545-1 | |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 | high | ||
| qemu-kvm | source | squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze9 | high | DSA-2542-1 | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.1.3-2 | high | 686764 | |
| xen | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | high | ||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | squeeze | 4.0.1-2+squeeze2 | high | DSA-2543-1 |
[squeeze] - xen <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)