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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8554

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8554 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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."

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14xen0, 0, 0
Debian:12xen0, 0, 0
Debian:11xen0, 0, 0
Debian:13xen0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 14, 2016 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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