PT-2012-5999 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Published 2012-12-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-5514

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.2 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the guest physmap mark populate on demand function, which does not properly unlock the subject GFNs when checking if they are in use. This allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service (hang) via unspecified vectors.

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

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5514

DSA-2582-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1685-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1687-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0133-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0940-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0944-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 166

• http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00011.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5514 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00019.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51487 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5514 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5514 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51397 · Vendor Advisory