CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4544

2.1 LOW Published 2012-10-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-31
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-20

Description

The PV domain builder in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not validate the size of the kernel or ramdisk (1) before or (2) after decompression, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (domain 0 memory consumption) via a crafted (a) kernel or (b) ramdisk.

Affected configurations

• xen xen (<= 4.2.0) • xen xen 4.1.0 • xen xen 4.1.1 • xen xen 4.1.2 • xen xen 4.1.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References