CVE-2012-5511

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
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the dirty video RAM tracking functionality in Xen 3.4 through 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large bitmap image.

Affected products

xen: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 4.0.0 (+5)

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/51486
http://secunia.com/advisories/51487
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

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