High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-8554
CVE-2015-8554
Description
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."
Affected products
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