CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4538
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.0.0
• xen xen 4.1.0
• xen xen 4.2.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.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.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/87306 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51200 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51324 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51352 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027762 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80025 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.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.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/87306 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51200 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51324 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51352 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027762 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80025 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org