Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xen  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-XEN-625913
  • published12 Aug 2015
  • disclosed12 Aug 2015

Introduced: 12 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-5165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The C+ mode offload emulation in the RTL8139 network card device model in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, allows remote attackers to read process heap memory via unspecified vectors.

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