CVE-2012-2934
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 38.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-12-03 21:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 19:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-05-24
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 72e934b47ff7e280117f357141f1521b95951dd5d31efa51a23e41728a21b1c1
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com55082http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- support.amd.comhttp://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf
- www.securityfocus.com53961http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961
- secunia.com51413http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201309-24http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- www.debian.orgDSA-2501http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:1572http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- lists.xen.org[Xen-announce] 20120612 [Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 9 (CVE-2012-2934) - PV guest host DoS (AMD erratum #121)http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:1573http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xen Fixed in 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xen Fixed in 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xen Fixed in 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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