CVE-2015-8554
N/A
Published: April 14, 2016 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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."
Remediation
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References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203879x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-164.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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