Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2015-8556

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.

Published

2017-03-24T14:59:00.147

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 10.0 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-362

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	qemu	qemu	≤ 2.4.1	Yes

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)