01 Record
CVE-2012-3516
The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation in the grant table hypercall in Xen 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 allows local guest kernels or administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation in the grant table hypercall in Xen 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 allows local guest kernels or administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and
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
- 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 29.0% 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
- Important. 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
- 2012-11-23 20:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-06-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 57e1cbffe8a1adf98518687f89e91c8dfc070075aa2272b7134da3b9ecfdd586
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com55411http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55411
- secunia.com50530http://secunia.com/advisories/50530
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120905 Xen Security Advisory 18 (CVE-2012-3516) - grant table entry swaps have inadequate bounds checkinghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/11
- secunia.com50472http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
- support.citrix.comhttp://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708
- wiki.xen.orghttp://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-18_grant_table_entry_swaps_have_inadequate_bounds_checking
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2012:1133http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html