CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4537

2.1 LOW Published 2012-11-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Description

Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka "Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• xen xen 3.4.0 • xen xen 3.4.1 • xen xen 3.4.2 • xen xen 3.4.3 • xen xen 3.4.4 • 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 • xen xen 4.1.2 • xen xen 4.1.3 • xen xen 4.2.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References