CVE-2012-3516 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-3516

The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation in the grant table hypercall in Xen...

Vulnerability Description

The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation in the grant table hypercall in Xen 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 allows local guest kernels or administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted grant reference that triggers a write to an arbitrary hypervisor memory location.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xenserver, xen
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 4.2.0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 23rd, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.