PT-2015-7800 · Xen+2 · Xen+2

Felix Wilhelm

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Published

2015-12-17

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Updated

2024-06-15

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CVE-2015-8550

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue 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. This is related to a double fetch vulnerability.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Improper Access Control

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8550
DLA-479-1
DSA-3434-1
DSA-3471-1
DSA-3519-1
MGASA-2016-0005
MGASA-2016-0014
MGASA-2016-0015
MGASA-2016-0098
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0123-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0124-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0126-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0280-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0301-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0318-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0168-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0911-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1102-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1154-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1203-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1
SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1
USN-2846-1
USN-2847-1
USN-2848-1
USN-2849-1
USN-2850-1
USN-2851-1
USN-2853-1
USN-2854-1
USN-2886-2
USN-2891-1

Affected Products

Suse
Ubuntu
Xen