Resource Management Errors Affecting xen package, versions <4.1.3-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-XEN-515393
  • published21 Nov 2012
  • disclosed21 Nov 2012

Introduced: 21 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-4539  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 xen to version 4.1.3-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."

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