CVE-2012-2625

Xen <25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, 4.1.x - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

References (15)

Core 15

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/49184

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html

Broken Link x_refsource_misc

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0031

EPSS Percentile 54.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (6)

xen/xen 4.1.0

xen/xen 4.1.1

xen/xen 4.1.2

xen/xen 4.1.3

xen/xen 4.2.0

xen/xen-unstable < 25589\:60f09d1ab1fe

Published Oct 31, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026