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CVE-2015-8550

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.2
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
15.964

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Linux kernel (USN-2846-1) linux-image-3.2.0-97-generic_3.2.0-97.137_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2846-1) linux-image-3.2.0-97-generic_3.2.0-97.137_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2846-1) linux-image-3.2.0-97-virtual_3.2.0-97.137_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2846-1) linux-image-3.2.0-97-virtual_3.2.0-97.137_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2846-1) linux-image-3.2.0-97-generic-pae_3.2.0-97.137_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty (USN-2847-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-generic_3.13.0-74.118~precise1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty (USN-2847-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-generic_3.13.0-74.118~precise1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2848-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-generic_3.13.0-74.118_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2848-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-generic_3.13.0-74.118_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2848-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-lowlatency_3.13.0-74.118_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2848-1) linux-image-3.13.0-74-lowlatency_3.13.0-74.118_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2849-1) linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2849-1) linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2849-1) linux-image-3.16.0-57-lowlatency_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2849-1) linux-image-3.16.0-57-lowlatency_3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2850-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-generic_3.19.0-42.48_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2850-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-generic_3.19.0-42.48_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2850-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-lowlatency_3.19.0-42.48_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2850-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-lowlatency_3.19.0-42.48_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Wily (USN-2853-1) linux-image-4.2.0-22-generic_4.2.0-22.27~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Wily (USN-2853-1) linux-image-4.2.0-22-generic_4.2.0-22.27~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Wily (USN-2853-1) linux-image-4.2.0-22-lowlatency_4.2.0-22.27~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Wily (USN-2853-1) linux-image-4.2.0-22-lowlatency_4.2.0-22.27~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2854-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-generic_3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2854-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-generic_3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2854-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-lowlatency_3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2854-1) linux-image-3.19.0-42-lowlatency_3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234