CVE-2012-0217

Summary

CVECVE-2012-0217
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerdebian
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-12 22:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Citrix Xenserver 6.0 All All All
Application Citrix Xenserver All All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Illumos Illumos All All All All
Operating System Joyent Smartos All All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 All All x64 All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 All sp1 x64 All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2003 All sp2 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2008 r2 All x64 All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp3 All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd All beta All All
Operating System Sun Sunos All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.4 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Alert TA12-164A -- Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.freebsd.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2501-1 xen af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.citrix.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2508-1 kfreebsd-8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
FreeBSD - Intel SYSRET Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) - FreeBSD_x86-64 local Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Bug 813428 – CVE-2012-0217 kernel: x86-64: avoid sysret to non-canonical address af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2012 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
SmartOS News: June 15, 2012 – SmartOS.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 smartos.org
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.netbsd.org
illumos gate - Bug #2873: sysretq doesn't properly handle non-canonical addresses - illumos.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.illumos.org
SmartOS Change Log - SmartOS Documentation - SmartOS Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.smartos.org
illumos» Blog Archive » Patch for illumos CERT Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.illumos.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:150 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
FreeBSD Intel SYSRET Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
The Intel SYSRET privilege escalation – blog.xen.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.xen.org
Security Advisory SA55082 - Gentoo update for xen - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Vulnerability Note VU#649219 - SYSRET 64-bit operating system privilege escalation vulnerability on Intel CPU hardware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
[Xen-devel] Security vulnerability process, and CVE-2012-0217 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xen.org
[Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217) - PV privilege escalation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xen.org
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-042 - Important | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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