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SUSE-SU-2015:0927-1 Not scored

Security update for Xen

Xen was updated to fix two security issues and a bug: * CVE-2015-3456: A buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM. * CVE-2015-3340: Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed certain remote service domains to obtain sensitive information from memory via a (1) XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request. * An exception in setCPUAffinity when restoring guests. (bsc#910441) Security Issues: * CVE-2015-3456 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3456> * CVE-2015-3340 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3340>

Exploit probability Not scored
Published May 13, 2015
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2015:0927-1

Xen was updated to fix two security issues and a bug: * CVE-2015-3456: A buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM. * CVE-2015-3340: Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed certain remote service domains to obtain sensitive information from memory via a (1) XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request. * An exception in setCPUAffinity when restoring guests. (bsc#910441) Security Issues: * CVE-2015-3456 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3456> * CVE-2015-3340 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3340>

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