CVE-2015-8550

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS8.2

Exploit probability—

ProductXen

PublishedApr 14, 2016

First seenApr 14, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
xen xen	No range specified	—
novell suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension	12	—

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