National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3498

Overview

PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq in Xen 4.1 and 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly read hypervisor or guest memory via vectors related to a missing range check of map->index.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851193

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851193

External Source: XF

Name: xen-physdevopmappirq-dos(78269)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78269

External Source: BID

Name: 55414

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55414

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120905 Xen Security Advisory 16 (CVE-2012-3498) - PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq index vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/9

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-16_PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq_index_vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-16_PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq_index_vulnerability

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708

Hyperlink:http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027483

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1027483

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50530

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50530

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50472

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50472

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 85198

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/85198

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Xen-announce] 20120905 Xen Security Advisory 16 (CVE-2012-3498) - PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq index vulnerability

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1572

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1172

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1133

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1132

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html