vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-8554): xen vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 14, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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."

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
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