CVE-2012-2934
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Downstream
Modified
Published: 03 Dec 2012, 21:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 19:50
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
minimal
8/100 CVSS Score
1.9 LOW
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.17% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
03 Dec 2012, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 19:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.
CVSS Metrics
- v2.0•LOW•Score: 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.17%• Percentile: 38%
Affected Systems
- xen•xen
4.0.0 | 4.1.0
References (9)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html