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CVE-2012-4538

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Date: November 24, 2012

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.7

Related Resources (23)

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

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51200

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

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51352

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4538

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51468

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51324

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

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

Url: http://osvdb.org/87306

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

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

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

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

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4538

Severity Score

5.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.7
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2012-4538

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Date: November 24, 2012

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (23)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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