Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 3, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-2934
CVE-2012-2934
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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References
9- lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51413nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/55082nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlnvd
- support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdfnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961nvd
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