Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-3497
CVE-2012-3497
Description
(1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id.
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References
19- secunia.com/advisories/50472nvdVendor Advisory
- wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_AnnouncementsnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.htmlnvd
- lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00006.htmlnvd
- osvdb.org/85199nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51324nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51352nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51413nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/55082nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlnvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/8nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/55410nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78268nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03nvd
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