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CVE-2012-5513

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Date: December 13, 2012

The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://www.osvdb.org/88131

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5513

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51397

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51495

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56797

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00000.html

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80482

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html

Url: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51487

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51486

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51468

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00019.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00011.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5513

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/11

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-5513

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2012-5513

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Date: December 13, 2012

Language: C

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