CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3496

Published: Nov 23, 2012 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
5.5 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xenserver Citrix * 6.0.2 (including)
Xen Xen 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.0 (including)
Xen Xen 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.0 (including)
Xen Ubuntu oneiric *
Xen Ubuntu precise *
Xen Ubuntu upstream *
Xen-3.1 Ubuntu hardy *
Xen-3.3 Ubuntu natty *

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