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."
Published: 2016-04-14
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-479-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8434 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."
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:20:43.532Z

Reserved: 2015-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8554

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-14T14:59:05.223

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8554

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-12-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8554 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses