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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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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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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