Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2582-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-4467 Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:42:54.927Z

Reserved: 2012-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-4539

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-11-21T23:55:02.290

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-4539

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2012-11-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-4539 - Bugzilla

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