CVE-2012-3496

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.

🔗 References (46)

• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00002.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/50472
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/50530
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51413
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/55082
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://securitytracker.com/id?1027481
• secalert@redhathttp://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708