Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8551

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8551.

CWE Category CWE-476
Published Date Apr 13, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.0 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8551: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
D
debian 1
O
opensuse 1
U
ubuntu 1
S
suse 6

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.0
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8551 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.