CVE-2012-4538

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2012-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

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/2012-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/87306
http://secunia.com/advisories/51200
http://secunia.com/advisories/51324
http://secunia.com/advisories/51352
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

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