CVE-2015-8553 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Xen and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It allows a guest OS user to access sensitive data from uninitialized host OS kernel memory due to an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability. The attack requires local access with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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