CVE-2012-3497

Xen 4.0-4.2 - Denial of Service via TMEM NULL Client ID

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

(1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id.

References (19)

Core 19
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027482
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55410
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/8
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78268
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/85199
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51352
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51324
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Scores

EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (3)
xen/xen 4.0.0
xen/xen 4.1.0
xen/xen 4.2.0
Published Nov 23, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026