| 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; oss-sec, fulldisc, OSVDB, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, more) |
| References | DSA-2542-1, DSA-2543-1, DSA-2545-1 |
| NVD severity | high (attack range: local) |
| Debian Bugs | 686764 |
| Debian/oldstable | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/stable | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/testing | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/unstable | not vulnerable. |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | squeeze (security), squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze4 | fixed |
| wheezy, wheezy (security) | 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u6 | fixed | |
| jessie, sid | 1:2.1+dfsg-11 | fixed | |
| qemu-kvm (PTS) | squeeze (security), squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze11 | fixed |
| wheezy, wheezy (security) | 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u6 | fixed | |
| xen (PTS) | squeeze (security), squeeze | 4.0.1-5.11 | fixed |
| wheezy | 4.1.4-3+deb7u3 | fixed | |
| wheezy (security) | 4.1.4-3+deb7u4 | fixed | |
| jessie, sid | 4.4.1-6 | fixed | |
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 (PTS) | squeeze (security), squeeze | 4.0.1-2+squeeze3 | fixed |
The information above 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)