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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 writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.

  • Published: Apr 14, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8550
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.7
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C