CVE-2012-6333

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input.

Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input.

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 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 4.2.0

4.2.0

References

SUSE-SU-2012:1615

SUSE-SU-2014:0446

51397

Vendor Advisory

51486

Vendor Advisory

51487

Vendor Advisory

55082

GLSA-201309-24

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

[oss-security] 20121203 Xen Security Advisory 27 (CVE-2012-5511) - several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs

88129

56796

xen-hvm-dos(80484)

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