CVE-2015-3259

medium
Published 2015-07-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3259

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-137.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3259.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.6.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.6.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.6.0-1
debian debiansidfixed4.6.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.6.0-1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.