Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2015-8553CVE-2015-8553
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.1%
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.
Bugs
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | see version 5 of XSA-120 advisory for updates patches |
| sbeattie | deferring as it introduced problems with some QEMU setups first fix is af6fc858a35b90e89ea7a7ee58e66628c55c776b; the regression fix doesn’t seem to have made it upstream description is incorrect, the incomplete fix is to CVE-2015-2150 |
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-aws-5.15 | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-aws-6.5 | < any | UNKNOWN |
Related
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.1%