CVE-2015-8554 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2015-8554 PUBLISHED

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."

EPSS 0.06% · 19.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.06%

19.0th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	xen	0, 4.3.0-1ubuntu1, 4.3.0-1ubuntu2

Timeline

Apr 14, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8554 third-party-advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-164.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8554 third-party-advisory

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