CVE-2015-2152

Description

From CVE.org

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.

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score2.11.9N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityLowMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactPartialNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNonePartialN/A
Availability ImpactNoneNoneN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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