Tag: CVE-2015-3456

Information on CVE-2015-3456 QEMU Vulnerability (VENOM)

Posted on May 13, 2015 by J. Mays

Category: Security Bulletins | Tags: CVE, CVE-2015-3456, KVM, patch, QEMU, Security, Update, VENOM, Vulnerability, Xen

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Overview

VENOM, or Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation, was made public on May 13, 2015. The vulnerability is in QEMU, a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer that is utilized by Xen, KVM, and other modern hypervisors / virtualization platforms.

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