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SUSE: CVE-2015-8550: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
01/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:0168-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0658-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0911
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0911-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1102
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1102-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1154-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1203-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1764
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1
  • DLA-479-1
  • DSA-3434
  • DSA-3471
  • DSA-3519
  • 79592
  • 1034479
  • GLSA-201604-03
  • CVE-2015-8550
  • USN-2846-1
  • USN-2847-1
  • USN-2848-1
  • USN-2849-1
  • USN-2850-1
  • USN-2851-1
  • USN-2853-1
  • USN-2854-1
  • USN-2886-2
  • USN-2891-1
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