CVE-2012-3433 (GCVE-0-2012-3433)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
Summary
Xen 4.0 and 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (domain 0 VCPU hang and kernel panic) by modifying the physical address space in a way that triggers excessive shared page search time during the p2m teardown.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54942 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2012-08-09 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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