Vulnerability in Xen
CVE-2012-4535
Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption) by setting a VCPU with an "inappropriate deadline."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 1.9 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (31.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 31.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Xen — versions 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/55082 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00001.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/51413 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51200 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 (vendor-advisory)
- osvdb.org/87298 (vdb-entry)