CVE-2012-5513

Publication date

2012-12-13 11:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range.