CVE-2015-8550
8.2 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.4%
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.
References
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/79592
www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479
xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-155.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
Related
8.2 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.4%