Re: VENOM - CVE-2015-3456

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:22:19PM +0000, Jason Geffner wrote:
> VENOM, CVE-2015-3456, is a security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer 
> virtualization platforms.

Some bits of contemporary history, off Twitter:

<nelhage> All I have to say about VENOM is that I was exploiting obsolete hardware in qemu years before it was cool.  
https://blog.nelhage.com/2011/08/breaking-out-of-kvm/
<solardiz> @nelhage I think @taviso was there first, with emulated Cirrus Logic VGA (CVE-2007-1320) and NE2000 vulns in 
QEMU.  http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf

Alexander