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    CVE-2015-8556

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

    Published:Dec 14, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Mar 24, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.21208
    CVSS Score:10

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Qemu
    Product
    Qemu

    Exploits

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

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High