CVE-2012-3496
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-23 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50472Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50530Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/51413
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/55082
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1027481
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-14_XENMEM_populate_physmap_DoS_vulnerability
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2544
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/7
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/85200
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55412
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854590
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78267
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
Impacted products
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