cve/2015/CVE-2015-8550.md

### [CVE-2015-8550](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8550)
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### Description

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.

### POC

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

#### Github
- https://github.com/Al1ex/LinuxEelvation
- https://github.com/HaxorSecInfec/autoroot.sh
- https://github.com/JlSakuya/Linux-Privilege-Escalation-Exploits
- https://github.com/a-roshbaik/Linux-Privilege-Escalation-Exploits
- https://github.com/bsauce/kernel-exploit-factory
- https://github.com/jfbastien/no-sane-compiler