CVE-2012-5510

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 12 years ago

2012-12-13 11:53:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

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

References

SUSE-SU-2012:1615

openSUSE-SU-2012:1685

openSUSE-SU-2012:1687

openSUSE-SU-2013:0133

SUSE-SU-2014:0446

openSUSE-SU-2013:0636

openSUSE-SU-2013:0637

51397

Vendor Advisory

51468

Vendor Advisory

51486

Vendor Advisory

51487

Vendor Advisory

55082

GLSA-201309-24

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777

DSA-2582

[oss-security] 20121203 Xen Security Advisory 26 (CVE-2012-5510) - Grant table version switch list corruption vulnerability

88128

56794

xen-grant-table-dos(80478)

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