CVE-2012-5510

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2012-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.0 (+4)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51397
http://secunia.com/advisories/51468
http://secunia.com/advisories/51486
http://secunia.com/advisories/51487
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

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