CVE-2015-3259

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

xen: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+13)

References

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
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

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