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CVE-2015-8556

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1180%

EPSS Percentile34.52th

PublishedMar 24, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

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

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Qemu

Qemu

<= 2.4.1

References & Advisories

🔗 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

🔗 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/

🔗 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

🔗 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/

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