PT-2012-1058 · Red Hat+2 · Virt-Manager+2

Published 2012-08-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-3432

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

1.9

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions virt-manager (affected versions not specified) Xen versions 3.3 and 4.x

Description The issue is related to a potential denial of service, where exploitation can lead to a disruption in the availability of protected information. This can be achieved locally. Specifically, in Xen, the handle mmio function in arch/x86/hvm/io.c does not properly reset state information between emulation cycles when running an HVM guest. This allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a guest OS crash, via unspecified operations on MMIO regions.

Recommendations For virt-manager, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability. For Xen versions 3.3 and 4.x, consider restricting access to MMIO regions to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Exploit

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-04588

CVE-2012-3432

DSA-2531-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1172-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1174-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

SUSE-SU-2012_1043-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

Virt-Manager

References · 169

• 🔥 http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01649.html · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3432 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3432 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3432 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04588 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3432 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3432 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3672 · Note