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CVE-2012-3496

Severity Medium
Score 4.7/10

Summary

XENMEM_populate_physmap in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when translating paging mode is not used, allows local PV OS guest kernels to cause a denial of service (BUG triggered and host crash) via invalid flags such as MEMF_populate_on_demand.

  • MEDIUM
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-16 - Configuration

Weaknesses in this category are typically introduced during the configuration of the software.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published