CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0217

7.2 HIGH Published 2012-06-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-06-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 9.0) • illumos illumos (<= r13723) • joyent smartos (<= 20120614) • xen xen (<= 4.1.2) • xen xen 4.0.0 • xen xen 4.0.1 • xen xen 4.0.2 • xen xen 4.0.3 • xen xen 4.0.4 • xen xen 4.1.0 • xen xen 4.1.1 • microsoft windows 7 • microsoft windows server 2003 • microsoft windows server 2008 r2 • microsoft windows xp • citrix xenserver (<= 6.0.2) • citrix xenserver 6.0 • netbsd netbsd (<= 6.0) • sun sunos (<= 5.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References