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CVE-2011-2901 (GCVE-0-2011-2901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI
Summary
Off-by-one error in the __addr_ok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/02/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728042 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2011-09-02 00:00
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