cve/2015/CVE-2015-8550.md

CVE-2015-8550

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/JlSakuya/Linux-Privilege-Escalation-Exploits
• https://github.com/bsauce/kernel-exploit-factory
• https://github.com/jfbastien/no-sane-compiler