ghsa-cv84-8x9g-5qcr
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Published
2022-05-17 00:28
Modified
2022-05-17 00:28
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-8550"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-284"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-04-14T14:59:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-cv84-8x9g-5qcr",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T00:28:09Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T00:28:09Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8550"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79592"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034479"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-155.html"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}


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