CVE-2012-4544

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2012-4544 at MITRE

Description

The PV domain builder in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not validate the size of the kernel or ramdisk (1) before or (2) after decompression, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (domain 0 memory consumption) via a crafted (a) kernel or (b) ramdisk.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entries: 779212, 786516, 786518, 786519, 786520, 787163

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SU-2012:1486-1, published Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:09:20 +0100 (CET)
SUSE-SU-2012:1487-1, published Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:08:43 +0100 (CET)
SUSE-SU-2012:1503-1, published Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:08:39 +0100 (CET)
openSUSE-SU-2012:1572-1, published Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:08:36 +0100 (CET)
openSUSE-SU-2012:1573-1, published Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:13:15 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SLE 11 SP2 DEBUGINFO	`libvirt-debuginfo >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-debugsource >= 0.9.6-0.23.1`	sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7015
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2	`libvirt-devel >= 0.9.6-0.23.1`	sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7015
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2	`libvirt-devel >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-devel-32bit >= 0.9.6-0.23.1`	sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7015
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`libvirt >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-client >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-doc >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-python >= 0.9.6-0.23.1`	sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7015
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`libvirt >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-client >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-client-32bit >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-doc >= 0.9.6-0.23.1` `libvirt-python >= 0.9.6-0.23.1`	sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7015
SLE 11 SP2 DEBUGINFO	`xen-debuginfo >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-debugsource >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sles11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7018
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2	`xen-devel >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sles11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7018
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`xen-kmp-default >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-pae >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-trace >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1` `xen-libs >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-tools-domU >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sles11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7018
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware	`xen-kmp-trace >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sles11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7018
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`xen >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-doc-html >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-doc-pdf >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-default >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-trace >= 4.1.3_04_3.0.42_0.7-0.5.1` `xen-libs >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-libs-32bit >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-tools >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1` `xen-tools-domU >= 4.1.3_04-0.5.1`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86 sles11-sp2.x86 sle11-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7018
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`vm-install >= 0.5.14-0.5.7`	sled11-sp2.x86 sles11-sp2.x86-64 sles11-sp2.x86 sled11-sp2.x86-64 SAT Patch Nr: 7081