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CVE-2015-8550

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CVE-2015-8550

Published: Apr 14, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

DSA-3519
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
79592
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
SUSE-SU-2016:1764
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
SUSE-SU-2016:1102
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
1034479
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
GLSA-201604-03
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
DSA-3471
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
DSA-3434
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
SUSE-SU-2016:0911
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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