CVE-2012-6333
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.7
Description
Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input.
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 | 4.1.3-8 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.1.3-8 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.1.3-8 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.1.3-8 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.1.3-8 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51397
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51486
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51487
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/10
- http://www.osvdb.org/88129
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56796
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80484
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6333
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.