CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5511

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2012-12-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-12-13
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-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the dirty video RAM tracking functionality in Xen 3.4 through 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large bitmap image.

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References