CVE-2015-8550

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-155.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79592

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3