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CVE-2012-4539 (GCVE-0-2012-4539)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:42
VLAI
Summary
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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/87305 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/51200 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027763 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/51352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/51324 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2012-11-13 00:00
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    "redhat_vex": {
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      "cve": "CVE-2012-4539",
      "id": "CVE-2012-4539",
      "initial_release_date": "2012-11-13T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-4539.json",
      "version": "3"
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    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2025-10-08T00:59:21Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2012-4539",
      "id": "CVE-2012-4539",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:44:32Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "product_status:recommended": "218",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-4539",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-4539.json",
      "version": "10"
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  }
}



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