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CVE-2015-8550
HIGH · CVSS 8.2
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-14T14:59:04.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:45.193

Summary

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.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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