high8.2
CVE-2015-8550
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 writi…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Xen | Xen | All versions |
| Novell | Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension | Version 12 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
- 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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- 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://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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- 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