CVE-2012-0218

Description

From CVE.org

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by later triggering an exception that would normally be handled within Xen.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as we did not have support for sysenter and compat (32bit) version of syscall instructions for PV guests running on the Xen hypervisor (introduced in upstream changeset 16207:aeebd173c3fa).

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score41.9N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityHighMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactCompletePartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Xen for reporting this issue.

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