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CVE-2015-8554

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CVE-2015-8554

Published: Apr 14, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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."

VendorProductVersions

n/a

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affected
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References

1034481
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
79579
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
GLSA-201604-03
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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