CVE-2012-3496
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-23 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
XENMEM_populate_physmap in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when translating paging mode is not used, allows local PV OS guest kernels to cause a denial of service (BUG triggered and host crash) via invalid flags such as MEMF_populate_on_demand.
References
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