CVE-2012-2625

Summary

CVECVE-2012-2625
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-10-31 16:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-04-13 13:00:00 UTC
DescriptionThe PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.0 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 4.1.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen-unstable All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen-unstable All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1135-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1174-1: important: Security Update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Bug 1817 – pv bootloader doesn't check the size of the bzip2 or lzma compressed kernel MISC bugzilla.xensource.com Broken Link
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 25 (CVE-2012-4544) - Xen domain builder Out-of-memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Xen PV Bootloader Bug Lets Local Guest Users Crash the System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1572-1: important: XEN: security an SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1043-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51413 - SUSE update for xen - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
xen-unstable.hg: 60f09d1ab1fe CONFIRM xenbits.xensource.com Vendor Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1172-1: important: Security Update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1573-1: important: XEN: security an SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1044-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA49184 - Xen PyGrub Kernel Decompression Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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