Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8554

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-14 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:20:43
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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."