CVE-2012-6333

Publication date 13 December 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 13.10 saucy
Fixed 4.2.0-1ubuntu4
13.04 raring
Fixed 4.2.0-1ubuntu4
12.10 quantal
Fixed 4.1.3-3ubuntu1.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.1.2-2ubuntu2.3
11.10 oneiric
Fixed 4.1.1-2ubuntu4.3
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
xen-3.1 13.10 saucy Not in release
13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
xen-3.2 13.10 saucy Not in release
13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
xen-3.3 13.10 saucy Not in release
13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary This is CVE assigned to one of the issues previously bundled in CVE-2012-5511. The fix is included in the CVE-2012-5511 patch. (XSA-27)

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