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Critical severity10.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8556

CVE-2015-8556

Description

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.

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Affected products

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QEMU/Qemu
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=2.4.1
File Project/QEMUllm-create
Range: <2.5.0-r1

Patches

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References

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packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlnvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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