CVE-2015-5166

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges by unplugging a block device twice.

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges by unplugging a block device twice.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-08-12 14:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Fedora 21

21

Fedora 22

22

Xen

Xen Xen 4.5.1

4.5.1

References

FEDORA-2015-14361

FEDORA-2015-15946

FEDORA-2015-15944

76152

1033175

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-139.html

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