VENOM (short for Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation[1]) is a computer security flaw that was discovered in 2015 by Jason Geffner, then a security researcher at CrowdStrike.[2] The flaw was introduced in 2004 and affected versions of QEMU, Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox from that date until it was patched following disclosure.[3][4]

The existence of the vulnerability was due to a flaw in QEMU's virtual floppy disk controller.[5]

VENOM is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database as CVE-2015-3456.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Richard A. Clarke; Robert K. Knake (2019). The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats. Penguin. pp. 320–. ISBN 978-0-525-56197-2.
  2. ↑ "VENOM Vulnerability". Venom.crowdstrike.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ Whittaker, Zack (May 13, 2015). "Bigger than Heartbleed, 'Venom' security vulnerability threatens most datacenters". ZDNet. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Dan Goodin (May 14, 2015). "Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere". Ars Technica. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Stone, Jeff (May 14, 2015). "Venom Security Flaw: Bug Exploits Floppy Drive, But Researchers Say Threat Overstated". International Business Times. IBT Media. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Marc Dacier; Michael Bailey; Michalis Polychronakis; Manos Antonakakis (2017). Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 20th International Symposium, RAID 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA, September 18–20, 2017, Proceedings. Springer. pp. 422–. ISBN 978-3-319-66332-6.


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