CVE-2012-3496
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.1%
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 configurations
References
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00002.html
secunia.com/advisories/50472
secunia.com/advisories/50530
secunia.com/advisories/51413
secunia.com/advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
securitytracker.com/id?1027481
support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708
wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-14_XENMEM_populate_physmap_DoS_vulnerability
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2544
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/7
www.osvdb.org/85200
www.securityfocus.com/bid/55412
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854590
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78267
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
Related
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.1%