Information disclosure in QEMU - CVE-2014-3615
Published: November 2, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32423
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3615
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The VGA emulator in QEMU allows local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution.
Affected software
QEMU
qemu (Alpine package)
qemu
SUSE Linux
Fedora
qemu (Alpine package)
qemu
SUSE Linux
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3615
Install update from vendor's website.
qemu (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.2-r3
qemu - update to 2.1.1-1.fc21
qemu - update to 2.1.1-1.fc21
External References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ab9509cceabef28071e41bdfa073083859c949a7
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=c1b886c45dc70f247300f549dce9833f3fa2def5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1669.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1670.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1941.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61829
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200892
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69654
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139115