CVE-2012-2625
N/A
Published: October 31, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorXenXen Unstable
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
Description
The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
References (15)
x_refsource_MISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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