CVE-2012-6033

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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-264

Description

The do_tmem_control function in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check privileges, which allows local guest OS users to access control stack operations via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was originally published as part of CVE-2012-3497, which was too general; CVE-2012-3497 has been SPLIT into this ID and others.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0

References

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/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-15_multiple_TMEM_hypercall_vulnerabilities
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55410
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027482
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78268
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.html

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