CVE-2015-8556

Critical

Published: 24/03/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

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

Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local user to gain elevated privileges on the system, posing a serious security threat.

It is recommended to update the QEMU package to version 2.5.0-r1 or later to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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