Vulnerability in Xen
CVE-2012-5510
Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
EPSS: 0.004 (34.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Xen — versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2012-5510?
- CVE-2012-5510 is a vulnerability in Xen. Published 2012-12-13.
- Is CVE-2012-5510 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.