CVE-2012-4539

medium

Description

Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80026

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-4467

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027763

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498

http://www.osvdb.org/87305

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/4

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

http://secunia.com/advisories/51468

http://secunia.com/advisories/51413

http://secunia.com/advisories/51352

http://secunia.com/advisories/51324

http://secunia.com/advisories/51200

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.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/2012-11/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-11-21

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00433