CVE-2012-4537

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka "Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability."

Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka "Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-21 23:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

Xen 3.4.0

3.4.0

Xen 3.4.1

3.4.1

Xen 3.4.2

3.4.2

Xen 3.4.3

3.4.3

Xen 3.4.4

3.4.4

Xen 4.0.0

4.0.0

Xen 4.0.1

4.0.1

Xen 4.0.2

4.0.2

Xen 4.0.3

4.0.3

Xen 4.0.4

4.0.4

Xen 4.1.0

4.1.0

Xen 4.1.1

4.1.1

Xen 4.1.2

4.1.2

Xen 4.1.3

4.1.3

Xen 4.2.0

4.2.0

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