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CVE-2015-5166

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which a

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges by unplugging a block device twice.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.00072
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

3
xen<= 4.5.0
xenall versions

Scoring & Timeline

7.2
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD12 Aug 2015 · 02:59 PM

Vendor Advisories

5
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1384-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1404-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1479-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1479-2
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