CVE-2015-2152

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-03-12
Bugzilla:
1200724: CVE-2015-2152 xen: HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends (XSA 119)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2152 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include affected libxc library.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

External References

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