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CVE-2015-2152

N/A

Description

Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by (1) setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support, or connecting to the VNC server on (2) ::1 or (3) 127.0.0.1, when not compiled with SDL support.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published3/18/2015

Last Modified5/6/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoraxen:xen

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919(cve@mitre.org)

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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