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This is a case of legacy code left in an important attack surface. I doubt many people need a virtual floppy drive today.

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Nonsense. I use the virtual floppy drive in VMs all the time, because I'm virtualizing legacy systems. But I do agree it could probably be disabled (and thus unexploitable) by default.

This is a different bug.

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