CVE-2012-3433

Xen 4.0-4.1 - Denial of Service via Physical Address Space Modification

Title source: llm

Description

Xen 4.0 and 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (domain 0 VCPU hang and kernel panic) by modifying the physical address space in a way that triggers excessive shared page search time during the p2m teardown.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/09/3

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

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

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54942

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-08/msg00855.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 22.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (2)

xen/xen 4.0.0

xen/xen 4.1.0

Published Nov 24, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026