CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8550

8.2 HIGH Published 2016-04-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• xen xen • novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 12

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References