Denial of Service Vulnerability in Xen's Transcendent Memory (TMEM)

CVE-2012-6031 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The do_tmem_get function in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (CPU hang and host crash) via unspecified vectors related to a spinlock being held in the "bad_copy error path." NOTE: this issue was originally published as part of CVE-2012-3497, which was too general; CVE-2012-3497 has been SPLIT into this ID and others.

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