CVE-2015-8551

Published Apr 13, 2016

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description
The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
1.5
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.7
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-476

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations