Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8554
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability 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."
Published Date
April 14, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory