cve-2015-8553
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-13 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:20
Severity ?
Summary
Xen allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized locations in host OS kernel memory by not enabling memory and I/O decoding control bits. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0777.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-120.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497
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