CVE-2012-3432
N/A
Published: December 3, 2012 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
Description
The handle_mmio function in arch/x86/hvm/io.c in the MMIO operations emulator for Xen 3.3 and 4.x, when running an HVM guest, does not properly reset certain state information between emulation cycles, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via unspecified operations on MMIO regions.
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/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01649.html
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploitVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01649.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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