CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3496
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
XENMEM_populate_physmap in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when translating paging mode is not used, allows local PV OS guest kernels to cause a denial of service (BUG triggered and host crash) via invalid flags such as MEMF_populate_on_demand.
Affected configurations
• citrix xenserver (<= 6.0.2)
• xen xen 4.0.0
• xen xen 4.1.0
• xen xen 4.2.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50472 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50530 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1027481 securitytracker.com
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-14_XENMEM_populate_physmap_DoS_vulnerability wiki.xen.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2544 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/85200 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55412 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854590 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78267 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50472 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50530 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1027481 securitytracker.com
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-14_XENMEM_populate_physmap_DoS_vulnerability wiki.xen.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2544 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/85200 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55412 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854590 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78267 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org