cve-2015-8550
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-14 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:20
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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