CVE-2012-2934
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-12-03 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:50
Severity ?
Summary
Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/51413
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/55082
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961
Impacted products
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