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CVE-2012-4539: xen Resource Management Errors

Modified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2012-4539
Published 21-11-2012Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-4539 is a low (CVSS 2.1) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 2.1, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
2.1/10
010
Low · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.43%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
DSA-2582-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Timeline

  1. 21-11-2012
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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."

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

38%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.43% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • xen< 4.1.3-4
Xen1 product
  • xen4.0.0 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.2.0

2 vendors · 2 products

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