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CVE-2015-8554

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.40%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-04-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2015-8554
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.40%

Original NVD 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."