CVE-2012-2934

CVE Details

Release Date:	2012-06-12
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.6
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2012-0721	2012-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2012-0721-1	2012-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-0721-1	2012-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5)	ELSA-2012-0721	2012-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-0721-1	2012-06-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5)	ELSA-2012-0721	2012-06-12