CVE-2012-4538 (GCVE-0-2012-4538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:42
VLAI
Summary
The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1043 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/51352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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Date Public
2012-11-13 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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