CVE-2015-3259

medium

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-137.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032973

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75573

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00042.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00041.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-07-16

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H