Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 24, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-3433
CVE-2012-3433
Description
Xen 4.0 and 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (domain 0 VCPU hang and kernel panic) by modifying the physical address space in a way that triggers excessive shared page search time during the p2m teardown.
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References
10- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.htmlnvd
- lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-08/msg00855.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/55082nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/09/3nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/54942nvd
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