Input validation error in Xen - CVE-2012-4536

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Input validation error in Xen - CVE-2012-4536

Published: November 22, 2012 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33916
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4536
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The (1) domain_pirq_to_emuirq and (2) physdev_unmap_pirq functions in Xen 2.2 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen crash) via a crafted pirq value that triggers an out-of-bounds read.


Affected software

Xen
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
xen (Alpine package)
app-emulation/xen
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub
app-emulation/xen-tools

How to mitigate CVE-2012-4536

Install update from vendor's website.

xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.1.3-r1
app-emulation/xen - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-tools - update to 4.2.2-r3

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