CVE-2012-3515

Published Nov 23, 2012

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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."
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.2
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References