CVE-2012-3497

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2012-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

(1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/85199
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
http://secunia.com/advisories/51324
http://secunia.com/advisories/51352
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

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