CVE-2012-4538

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80025

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027762

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

http://secunia.com/advisories/51468

http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

http://secunia.com/advisories/51352

http://secunia.com/advisories/51324

http://secunia.com/advisories/51200

http://osvdb.org/87306

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3