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qemu, xen — security advisory
Qemu, as used in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and possibly other products, when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend, allows local OS guest users to gain privileges via a crafted escape VT100 sequence that triggers the overwrite of a "device model's address space."
- Products
- qemu, xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.1.2+dfsg-1, 4.1.3-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-3515
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Qemu, as used in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and possibly other products, when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend, allows local OS guest users to gain privileges via a crafted escape VT100 sequence that triggers the overwrite of a "device model's address space."
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3515
qemu
Fixed versions: 1.1.2+dfsg-1
qemu
Fixed versions: 1.1.2+dfsg-1
qemu
Fixed versions: 1.1.2+dfsg-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.3-2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.3-2
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.3-2
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3515",
"method": "structured",
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}
],
"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:30.911974806Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2012-3515"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3515"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2012-3515",
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417353,
"published_at": "2012-11-23T20:55:03.523+00:00"
}