CVE-2015-8550

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-12-17
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guestOS 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.

See more information about CVE-2015-8550 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.4
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle VM version 3.3 (xen)	OVMSA-2016-0089	2016-07-27