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CVE-2012-2625 Detail

Current Description

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  10/31/2012
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.7 LOW
Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 5.1

Access Vector (AV): Local_Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817 Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe Vendor Advisory

Technical Details

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Change History

3 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-2625
NVD Published Date:
10/31/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/13/2018