Description
The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
Published: 2012-11-24
Score: 4.9 Medium
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-2582-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-4466 The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:42:54.821Z

Reserved: 2012-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-4538

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-24T20:55:03.603

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

Link: CVE-2012-4538

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-11-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-4538 - Bugzilla

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