CVE-2015-3259: Xen

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Xen Xen: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only; …

Published 2015-07-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.