CVE-2012-4539
published 2012-11-21CVE-2012-4539: 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…
PriorityP46low2.1CVSS 2.0
AVLACLAuNCNINAP
EPSS
0.43%
35.0th percentile
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."
Affected
15 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
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| debian | xen | < xen 4.1.3-4 (bookworm) | xen 4.1.3-4 (bookworm) |
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| xen | xen | >= 0 < 4.1.3-4 | 4.1.3-4 |
| xen | xen | >= 0 < 4.1.3-4 | 4.1.3-4 |
| xen | xen | >= 0 < 4.1.3-4 | 4.1.3-4 |
| xen | xen | >= 0 < 4.1.3-4 | 4.1.3-4 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv2.1LOW
vendor_debian2.1LOW
vendor_redhat2.1LOW
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GHSA
GHSA-fh46-gpfm-wfxc: Xen 4
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] GHSA-fh46-gpfm-wfxc: Xen 4
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."
OSV
CVE-2012-4539: Xen 4
osv·2012-11-21·CVSS 2.1
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] CVE-2012-4539: Xen 4
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."
Red Hat
kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
vendor_redhat·2012-11-13·CVSS 2.1
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] CWE-835 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
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."
Statement: Not vulnerable.
This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.
Package: kernel-xen (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2012-4539: xen - Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, al...
vendor_debian·2012·CVSS 2.1
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] CVE-2012-4539: xen - Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, al...
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."
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 4.1.3-4)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 4.1.3-4)
forky: resolved (fixed in 4.1.3-4)
sid: resolved (fixed in 4.1.3-4)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 4.1.3-4)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2012-11-13·CVSS 2.1
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen [fedora-all]
CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
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against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
bugzilla·2012-10-25·CVSS 2.1
CVE-2012-4539 [LOW] CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
CVE-2012-4539 kernel: xen: Grant Table hypercall infinite loop can crash Xen
Due to inappropriate duplicate use of the same loop control variable, passing bad arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames can cause an infinite loop in the compat hypercall handler.
A malicious guest administrator can trigger the bug. If the Xen watchdog is enabled, the whole system will crash. Otherwise the guest can cause the system to become completely unresponsive.
Only 32-bit x86 PV guests, running on 64-bit Xen hypervisors, introduce this vulnerability
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.
Discussion:
Statement:
Not vulnerable.
This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue did
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2012-11-21
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