CVE-2012-2625

medium

Description

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

References

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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3

http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

http://secunia.com/advisories/49184

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html

http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-31

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00317

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