CVE-2012-2934

Summary

CVECVE-2012-2934
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-12-03 21:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionXen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.0 - All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.0 - All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2501-1 xen af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Xen 64-bit PV Guests Local Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1572-1: important: XEN: security an af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 9 (CVE-2012-2934) - PV guest host DoS (AMD erratum #121) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.xen.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:1573-1: important: XEN: security an af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Security Advisory SA51413 - SUSE update for xen - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.amd.com
Security Advisory SA55082 - Gentoo update for xen - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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