CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0217
7.2 HIGH
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- 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
- http://blog.illumos.org/2012/06/14/illumos-vulnerability-patched/ blog.illumos.org
- http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/06/13/the-intel-sysret-privilege-escalation/ blog.xen.org
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html lists.xen.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg01072.html lists.xen.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc security.freebsd.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://smartos.org/2012/06/15/smartos-news-3/ smartos.org
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133161 support.citrix.com
- http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Change+Log#SmartOSChangeLog-June14%2C2012 wiki.smartos.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2508 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649219 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html US Government Resource
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813428 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15596 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28718/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46508/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/2873 www.illumos.org
- http://blog.illumos.org/2012/06/14/illumos-vulnerability-patched/ blog.illumos.org
- http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/06/13/the-intel-sysret-privilege-escalation/ blog.xen.org
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html lists.xen.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg01072.html lists.xen.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc security.freebsd.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://smartos.org/2012/06/15/smartos-news-3/ smartos.org
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133161 support.citrix.com
- http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Change+Log#SmartOSChangeLog-June14%2C2012 wiki.smartos.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2508 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649219 US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html US Government Resource
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813428 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15596 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28718/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46508/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/2873 www.illumos.org