FKIE_CVE-2012-0217
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-06-12 22:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:36
Severity
Summary
The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| freebsd | freebsd | * | |
| illumos | illumos | * | |
| joyent | smartos | * | |
| xen | xen | * | |
| xen | xen | 4.0.0 | |
| xen | xen | 4.0.1 | |
| xen | xen | 4.0.2 | |
| xen | xen | 4.0.3 | |
| xen | xen | 4.0.4 | |
| xen | xen | 4.1.0 | |
| xen | xen | 4.1.1 | |
| microsoft | windows_7 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_7 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_server_2003 | * | |
| microsoft | windows_server_2008 | r2 | |
| microsoft | windows_xp | * | |
| citrix | xenserver | * | |
| citrix | xenserver | 6.0 | |
| netbsd | netbsd | * | |
| sun | sunos | * |
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