CVE-2012-4538
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 24, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2012
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 55082third-party-advisory
- 51413third-party-advisory
- 51200third-party-advisory
- 1027762vdb-entry
- GLSA-201309-24vendor-advisory
- DSA-2582vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2012:1486vendor-advisory
- 87306vdb-entry
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1572vendor-advisory
- 51468third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2012:1487vendor-advisory
- xen-hvmop-dos(80025)vdb-entry
- SUSE-SU-2014:0446vendor-advisory
- 51352third-party-advisory
- 51324third-party-advisory
- GLSA-201604-03vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20121113 Xen Security Advisory 23 (CVE-2012-4538) - Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerabilitymailing-list
- 56498vdb-entry
- SUSE-SU-2012:1615vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1573vendor-advisory
- [Xen-announce] 20121113 Xen Security Advisory 23 (CVE-2012-4538) - Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerabilitymailing-list
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