Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Xen 4.6.x and Earlier with qemu-xen-traditional Device Model

CVE-2015-8554 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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