Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4538

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-24 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:42:54
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.