CVE-2015-8550 (GCVE-0-2015-8550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-14 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI
Summary
Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2015-12-17 00:00
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