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CVE-2015-8554
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-14T14:59:05.223 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:45.867

Summary

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 products

xen — xen

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References

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