CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2625
2.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.7 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.1.0
• xen xen 4.1.1
• xen xen 4.1.2
• xen xen 4.1.3
• xen xen 4.2.0
• xen xen-unstable (< 25589\:60f09d1ab1fe)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817 Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49184 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe Vendor Advisory
- http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817 Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49184 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe Vendor Advisory