| 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 |
| Debian Bugs | 686764 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u16 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 1:6.1+dfsg-6 | fixed | |
| xen (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster, buster (security) | 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.14.3-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 4.14.3-1 | 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-3squeeze2 | DSA-2545-1 | ||
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 | |||
| qemu-kvm | source | squeeze | 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze9 | DSA-2542-1 | ||
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 | |||
| xen | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.1.3-2 | 686764 | ||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | squeeze | 4.0.1-2+squeeze2 | DSA-2543-1 | ||
| xen-qemu-dm-4.0 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
[squeeze] - xen <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)