CVE-2012-3498

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 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

PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq in Xen 4.1 and 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly read hypervisor or guest memory via vectors related to a missing range check of map->index.

Affected products

Citrix XenServer: through 6.0.2
xen: 4.1.0, 4.2.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.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.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
http://osvdb.org/85198
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
http://secunia.com/advisories/50530
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

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