DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4538

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4538

    Published: 24 Nov 2012Last Modified: 5 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-4538

    Summary:

    Details: The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4538

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/xen?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.1.3-4

    Affected versions

    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
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