CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8554
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in hw/pt-msi.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using the qemu-xen-traditional (aka qemu-dm) device model, allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to gain privileges by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI-X capable physical PCI device and MSI-X table entries, related to a "write path."
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.6.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203879 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79579 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034481 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-164.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203879 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79579 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034481 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-164.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org