CVE-2012-4539

Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."

🔗 References (44)

• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.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.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00002.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51200
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51324
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51352
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51413
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/51468
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/55082
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml