CVE-2012-2625: Input Validation
First published: Wed Oct 31 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Xen Xen | =4.1.0 | |
| Xen Xen | =4.1.1 | |
| Xen Xen | =4.1.2 | |
| Xen Xen | =4.1.3 | |
| Xen Xen | =4.2.0 | |
| Xen Xen-unstable | <25589\:60f09d1ab1fe |
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Reference Links
- http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49184
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/xen
- canonical/xen xen
- version/xen xen/4.1.0
- version/xen xen/4.1.1
- version/xen xen/4.1.2
- version/xen xen/4.1.3
- version/xen xen/4.2.0
- canonical/xen xen-unstable