National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6333

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: xen-hvm-dos(80484)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80484

External Source: BID

Name: 56796

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56796

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 88129

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/88129

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121203 Xen Security Advisory 27 (CVE-2012-5511) - several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/10

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777

Hyperlink:http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51487

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51487

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51486

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51486

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51397

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51397

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1615

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html