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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-3495

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-3495

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
11/23/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The physdev_get_free_pirq hypercall in arch/x86/physdev.c in Xen 4.1.x and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier uses the return value of the get_free_pirq function as an array index without checking that the return value indicates an error, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid memory write and host crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-sle-sdk-release
  • suse-upgrade-vm-install
  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-ps
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-bigsmp
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-debug
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-desktop
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-desktop-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-kdump
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-smp
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-debuginfo-x86
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-x86
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-ioemu

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