VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8556

critical
Published 2017-03-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
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-2015-8556

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8556.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.4.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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