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CVE-2015-8556

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

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

Affected products

• QEMU: through 2.4.1

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/

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