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.
Published: 2012-12-03
Score: 1.9 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2501-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0254 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T18:16:19.768Z

Reserved: 2011-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-0218

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-12-03T21:55:01.440

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-0218

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-0218 - Bugzilla

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