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
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@debian.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)