CVE-2015-3259
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the xl command line utility in Xen 4.1.x through 4.5.x allows local guest administrators to gain privileges via a long configuration argument.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3259.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00041.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00042.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75573
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032973
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-137.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3259
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.