CVE-2012-3498

MEDIUM 5.6CVE-2012-3498 · Published 23/11/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-3498 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.6) vulnerability affecting xenserver (citrix).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.44%, higher than 38.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xenserver citrix	`≤ 6.0.2`	No fix yet

Description

PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq in Xen 4.1 and 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier allows local HVM guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly read hypervisor or guest memory via vectors related to a missing range check of map->index.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/85198
secunia.com/advisories/50472 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/50530 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51413
secunia.com/advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
securitytracker.com/id

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