cve/2015/CVE-2015-8554.md

### [CVE-2015-8554](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8554)
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### Description

Buffer overflow in hw/pt-msi.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using the qemu-xen-traditional (aka qemu-dm) device model, allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to gain privileges by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI-X capable physical PCI device and MSI-X table entries, related to a "write path."

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

#### Github
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