CVE-2015-8550

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.2 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-04-14

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension (Novell)
• Xen (Xen)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79592
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-155.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03