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CVE-2012-2934

Published: Dec 3, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host hang) via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0217.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

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http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf

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vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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openSUSE-SU-2012:1572

vendor-advisory

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[Xen-announce] 20120612 [Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 9 (CVE-2012-2934) - PV guest host DoS (AMD erratum #121)

mailing-list

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openSUSE-SU-2012:1573

vendor-advisory

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