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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-04-14T14:00:00

Updated: 2017-11-03T18:57:01

Reserved: 2015-12-14T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2015-8550

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-14T14:59:04.347

Modified: 2017-11-04T01:29:12.927


Link: CVE-2015-8550

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