CVE-2015-2151

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 12 Mar 2015, 14:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 05:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
29/100
CVSS Score
7.2 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.24% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Mar 2015, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 05:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.24%• Percentile: 47%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    7.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    20 | 21 | 22

  • xen•xen

    3.2.0 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.3.0 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 4.0.0 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.1.6.1 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.1 | 4.4.0 | 4.4.0:rc1 | 4.4.1 | 4.5.0

References (14)