PT-2012-5469 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Published 2012-11-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-4538

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 4.2

Description The issue is related to the HVMOP pagetable dying hypercall, which does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables. This allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service, resulting in a hypervisor crash.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.0 through 4.2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4538

DSA-2582-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1572-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1573-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 185

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4538 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4538 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html · Vendor Advisory