Vulnerability in Xen

CVE-2012-0218

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by later triggering an exception that would normally be handled within Xen.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xen — versions 3.4.0, 4.0.0, 4.1.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References