CVE-2012-6333

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-399

Description

Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input.

Affected products

xen: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 4.0.0 (+6)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.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
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/10
http://www.osvdb.org/88129
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56796
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80484

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