Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2011-2901 First vendor Publication 2013-10-01
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 5.5 Attack Range Adjacent network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 5.1 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Off-by-one error in the __addr_ok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2901

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20229
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20229
Title: VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console
Description: Off-by-one error in the __addr_ok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-2901
 Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21200
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21200
Title: RHSA-2011:1212: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: Off-by-one error in the __addr_ok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2011:1212-01
CESA-2011:1212
CVE-2011-2482
CVE-2011-2491
CVE-2011-2495
CVE-2011-2517
CVE-2011-2519
CVE-2011-2901
 Version: 81
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23293
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23293
Title: ELSA-2011:1212: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: Off-by-one error in the __addr_ok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011:1212-01
CVE-2011-2482
CVE-2011-2491
CVE-2011-2495
CVE-2011-2517
CVE-2011-2519
CVE-2011-2901
 Version: 29
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27781
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27781
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2011-1212 -- kernel security and bug fix update (important)
Description: [2.6.18-274.3.1.0.1.el5] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - fix missing aio_complete() in end_io (Joel Becker) [orabug 10365195] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] shrink_zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105] RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun) RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang) RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to() - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] - [aio] patch removes limit on number of retries (Srinivas Eeda) [orabug 10044782] - [loop] Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device (orabug 10314497)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2011-1212
CVE-2011-2482
CVE-2011-2491
CVE-2011-2495
CVE-2011-2517
CVE-2011-2519
CVE-2011-2901
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15
Os 17

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1212 centos5 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1212_kernel_centos5_x86_64.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0007 centos5
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0007_kernel_centos5.nasl
2012-03-15 Name : VMSA-2012-0001 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Ser...
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0001.nasl
2012-01-13 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2012:0007-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0007-01_kernel.nasl
2011-09-23 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1212 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_1212_kernel_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-09-12 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1212-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_1212-01_kernel.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
74873 Xen x86_64__addr_ok() Macro Off-by-one Unprivileged Local Host DoS

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2012-02-02 IAVM : 2012-A-0020 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0031252

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-03 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0001_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-13 Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : vmware_esxi_5_0_build_608089_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201309-24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1212.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1813.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110906_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-31 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-11 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_xen-7699.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-10-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_xen-201108-7703.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-23 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2011-1212.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-07 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-1212.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728042
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/02/2
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

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