Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 24, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-4538
CVE-2012-4538
Description
The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
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References
21- lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00004.htmlnvdVendor 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/2012-12/msg00001.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.htmlnvd
- osvdb.org/87306nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51200nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51324nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51352nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51413nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/51468nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/55082nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/3nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/56498nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80025nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03nvd
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