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CVE-2012-2934

Severity Low
Score 1.9/10

Summary

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.

  • MEDIUM
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published