Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-2625
CVE-2012-2625
Description
The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.
Affected products
6Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
15- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/49184nvdThird Party Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/51413nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fenvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdBroken Link
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