gsd-2012-4538
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:20
Details
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.
Aliases
Aliases
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"lastModifiedDate": "2017-08-29T01:32Z",
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