Debian: CVE-2015-8550: linux, qemu, xen -- security update
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
03/17/2016
07/25/2018
03/17/2016
07/30/2024
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.
Solution(s)
- debian-upgrade-linux
- debian-upgrade-qemu
- debian-upgrade-xen
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