CVE-2012-3497

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    CVE-2012-3497

    Published: 23 Nov 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: (1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/50472, http://secunia.com/advisories/51324, http://secunia.com/advisories/51352, http://secunia.com/advisories/51413, 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, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html, http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.html, http://osvdb.org/85199, 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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High