CVE-2012-3496

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.7
Exploit probability—
ProductCitrix Xenserver
PublishedNov 23, 2012
First seenNov 23, 2012

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
citrix xenserverv ≤ 6.0.2—
xen xen4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0—

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