CVE-2012-4538

Medium

Description

The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedNov 24, 2012
First seenNov 24, 2012

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xen xen4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0—

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