Vulnerability CVE-2012-3515

Vulnerability CVE-2012-3515

Published: 2012-11-23

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."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 Privilege Escalation	Context Informat...	31.10.2012

Type:

CWE-264

(Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10	10/10	3.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
XEN -> XEN
QEMU -> QEMU

References:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git;a=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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-17_Qemu_VT100_emulation_vulnerability

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2543

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2545

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/10

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55413

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1590-1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Vulnerability CVE-2012-3515

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."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Med.

Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 Privilege Escalation

CWE-264

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

7.2/10

10/10

3.9/10

Local

Low

No required

Complete

Complete

Complete

Affected software

References: