CVE-2015-8554 | BDVDB-2026-75245 Detail

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."

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034481
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-164.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79579
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203879

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12016-04-14Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.