CVE-2012-4538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-24 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:42
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
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