CVE-2012-0218

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by later triggering an exception that would normally be handled within Xen.

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by later triggering an exception that would normally be handled within Xen.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 12 years ago

2012-12-03 21:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-10-11 03:40:00

Affected Software

Xen 3.4.0

3.4.0

Xen 4.0.0

4.0.0

Xen 4.1.0

4.1.0

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