CVE-2012-0218

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

03/12/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by later triggering an exception that would normally be handled within Xen.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.90 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical