VENOM (security vulnerability)

VENOM (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation) is a computer security flaw that was publicly disclosed in 2015 by Jason Geffner of CrowdStrike.[1] The flaw was introduced in 2004 and affected versions of QEMU, Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox from that date until it was patched following disclosure.[2][3] The existence of the vulnerability was due to a flaw in QEMU's virtual floppy disk controller.[4]

VENOM is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database as CVE-2015-3456.

## References

1. ↑ "VENOM Vulnerability" (in en-US). https://venom.crowdstrike.com/.
2. ↑ Whittaker, Zack (May 13, 2015). "Bigger than Heartbleed, 'Venom' security vulnerability threatens most datacenters". http://www.zdnet.com/article/venom-security-flaw-millions-of-virtual-machines-datacenters/. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
3. ↑ Dan Goodin (May 14, 2015). "Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere". Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/extremely-serious-virtual-machine-bug-threatens-cloud-providers-everywhere/. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
4. ↑ Stone, Jeff (May 14, 2015). "Venom Security Flaw: Bug Exploits Floppy Drive, But Researchers Say Threat Overstated". International Business Times (IBT Media). http://www.ibtimes.com/venom-security-flaw-bug-exploits-floppy-drive-researchers-say-threat-overstated-1922070. Retrieved 11 November 2017.

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