CVE-2015-8554
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.06%Published: 4/14/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
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."
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.4.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |