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CVE-2012-2934
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…
Low1.9EPSS 0.44%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
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Affected products
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References (9)
- 55082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 53961 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 51413 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-201309-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-2501 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1572 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [Xen-announce] 20120612 [Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 9 (CVE-2012-2934) - PV guest host DoS (AMD erratum #121) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1573 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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