CVE-2012-2934 in Xen

Summary

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.

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• Reservation: 05/24/2012
• Disclosure: 12/03/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-5554
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-404 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.7
• EPSS: 0.00168
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2934
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2934
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-2934/