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CVE-2012-4538

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,

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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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References 21

secunia.com

securitytracker.com

security.gentoo.org

debian.org

lists.opensuse.org

osvdb.org

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

openwall.com

securityfocus.com

lists.xen.org