CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2152
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.5.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• fedoraproject fedora 22
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 security.gentoo.org