Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2015-8554

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."

  • Published: Apr 14, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8554
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.6
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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