Out-of-Bounds Affecting xen package, versions [,4.6.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383950
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-8554  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.6.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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."

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