CVE-2015-8556

Publication date 24 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
qemu-kvm	15.10 wily	Not in release
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

gentoo-specific issue, not suid in Debian/Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	10.0 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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