CVE-2015-5166: Use After Free
First published: Wed Aug 12 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =21 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =22 | |
| Xen Xen | <=4.5.0 | |
| Xen Xen | =4.5.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165373.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167792.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167820.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76152
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033175
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-139.html
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
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- agent/author
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- agent/type
- agent/weakness
- agent/description
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
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- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/fedoraproject
- canonical/fedoraproject fedora
- version/fedoraproject fedora/21
- version/fedoraproject fedora/22
- vendor/xen
- canonical/xen xen
- version/xen xen/4.5.0
- version/xen xen/4.5.1