CVE-2012-5513 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00019.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51397 http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 http://secunia.com/advisories/51486 http://secunia.com/advisories/51487 http://secunia.com/advisories/51495 http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/11 http://www.osvdb.org/88131 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56797 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80482