CVE-2015-8550
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8550
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8550.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8550
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-04-14T14:59:04Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- 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.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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html