CVE-2012-2934

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Xen 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.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.0, 4.1.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html

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