CVE-2015-8553 (GCVE-0-2015-8553)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-13 15:00
Modified
2026-05-26 17:44
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Xen allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized locations in host OS kernel memory by not enabling memory and I/O decoding control bits. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0777.
References
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-120.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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