PT-2012-4707 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Published 2012-09-14 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-3433

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.0 through 4.1

Description The issue allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service, resulting in a domain 0 VCPU hang and kernel panic. This occurs when the physical address space is modified in a way that triggers excessive shared page search time during the p2m teardown.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.0 through 4.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3433

DSA-2531-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1172-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1174-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 163

• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3433 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html · 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
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3433 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3433 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3433 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3672 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7970 · Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3515.html · Note