Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2012-4411

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Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2012-4411

Published: November 23, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU43305
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4411
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.

The graphical console in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 allows local OS guest administrators to obtain sensitive host resource information via the qemu monitor. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0998.


Affected software

Xen
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
app-emulation/xen
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub
app-emulation/xen-tools

How to mitigate CVE-2012-4411

Install update from vendor's website.

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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