Detections
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CVE-2015-3214
high
Description
The pit_ioport_read in i8254.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 and QEMU before 2.3.1 does not distinguish between read lengths and write lengths, which might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by triggering use of an invalid index.
References
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37990/
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1180-security-advisory-13
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/qemu
https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/qemu
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-02
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ee73f656a604d5aa9df86a97102e4e462dd79924
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032598
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75273
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3348
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1512.html