An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's VGA emulator accessed frame buffer memory for high resolution displays. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to leak memory contents of the host to the guest by setting the display to use a high resolution in the guest.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3615 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue does not affect the versions of kvm package as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 or the versions of qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
| Base Score | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2014:1669 | 2014-10-20 |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:1670 | 2014-10-20 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2014:1941 | 2014-12-02 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |
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