CVE-2012-6031
N/A
Published: November 23, 2012 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
The do_tmem_get function 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 (CPU hang and host crash) via unspecified vectors related to a spinlock being held in the "bad_copy error path." NOTE: this issue was originally published as part of CVE-2012-3497, which was too general; CVE-2012-3497 has been SPLIT into this ID and others.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (11)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/8Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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