CVE-2012-3515
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.2
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 12.2 | Affected | — |
| 12.1 | Affected | — |
| 11.4 | Affected | — |
| 11 | Affected | — |
| 10 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
| 11.10 | Affected | — |
| 11.04 | Affected | — |
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.1.2+dfsg-1 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Red Hat Mixed 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Not affected | — |
| 5.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endExcluding":"1.2.0"} | 1.2.0 |
| redhat | virtualization | 3.0 | |
| redhat | virtualization | 5.0 | |
| redhat | virtualization | 6.0 | |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git%3Ba=log
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00051.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1233.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1234.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1235.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1236.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50528
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.