CVE-2012-3496

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-16 Configuration Errors

Publication date:

23/11/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

XENMEM_populate_physmap in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when translating paging mode is not used, allows local PV OS guest kernels to cause a denial of service (BUG triggered and host crash) via invalid flags such as MEMF_populate_on_demand.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 4.70 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

4.70

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver::::::::		6.0.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.0:::::::*

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CVE-2012-3496

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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