CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5166

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-08-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges by unplugging a block device twice.

Affected configurations

• fedoraproject fedora 21 • fedoraproject fedora 22 • xen xen (<= 4.5.0) • xen xen 4.5.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References