CVE-2012-4411
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.6
Description
The graphical console in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 allows local OS guest administrators to obtain sensitive host resource information via the qemu monitor. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0998.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.1.3-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.1.3-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.1.3-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.1.3-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.1.3-2 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00007.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50493
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51324
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51352
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2543
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/06/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/06/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55442
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4411
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.