Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2012-5513 First vendor Publication 2012-12-13
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

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:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5513

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21233
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21233
Title: RHSA-2012:1540: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
Description: The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2012:1540-00
CESA-2012:1540
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3552
CVE-2012-4508
CVE-2012-4535
CVE-2012-4537
CVE-2012-5513
 Version: 81
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23068
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23068
Title: ELSA-2012:1540: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important)
Description: The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012:1540-00
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3552
CVE-2012-4508
CVE-2012-4535
CVE-2012-4537
CVE-2012-5513
 Version: 29
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27375
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27375
Title: ELSA-2012-1540-1 -- kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (important)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-308.24.1.0.1.el5] - [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367] - [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763] - [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272] - [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printks when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042] - [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] - 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] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919] - 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]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012-1540-1
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3552
CVE-2012-4508
CVE-2012-4535
CVE-2012-4537
CVE-2012-5513
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
ocfs2
oracleasm
kernel-PAE
kernel-PAE-devel
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-devel
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-headers
kernel-xen
kernel-xen-devel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27435
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27435
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2012-1540 -- kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (important)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-308.24.1.el5] - Revert: [scsi] sg: fix races during device removal (Ewan Milne) [868950 861004] [2.6.18-308.23.1.el5] - [net] bnx2x: Add remote-fault link detection (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905] - [net] bnx2x: Cosmetic changes (Alexander Gordeev) [870120 796905] - [net] rds-ping cause kernel panic (Alexander Gordeev) [822755 822756] {CVE-2012-2372} - [xen] add guest address range checks to XENMEM_exchange handlers (Igor Mammedov) [878033 878034] {CVE-2012-5513} - [xen] x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings (Igor Mammedov) [870148 870149] {CVE-2012-4537} - [xen] VCPU/timer: Dos vulnerability prev overflow in calculations (Igor Mammedov) [870150 870151] {CVE-2012-4535} - [scsi] sg: fix races during device removal (Ewan Milne) [868950 861004] [2.6.18-308.22.1.el5] - [net] bonding: fix link down handling in 802.3ad mode (Andy Gospodarek) [877943 782866] [2.6.18-308.21.1.el5] - [fs] ext4: race-cond protect for convert_unwritten_extents_endio (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508} - [fs] ext4: serialize fallocate w/ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508} - [fs] ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508} - [net] WARN if struct ip_options was allocated directly by kmalloc (Jiri Pirko) [874973 872612] - [net] ipv4: add RCU protection to inet->opt (Jiri Pirko) [872113 855302] {CVE-2012-3552} - [scsi] qla2xx: Dont toggle inter bits after IRQ lines attached (Chad Dupuis) [870118 800708]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2012-1540
CVE-2012-2372
CVE-2012-3552
CVE-2012-4508
CVE-2012-4535
CVE-2012-4537
CVE-2012-5513
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 16
Os 56

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2013-09-18 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2582-1 (xen - several vulnerabilities)
File : nvt/deb_2582_1.nasl
2012-12-18 Name : Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2012-19828
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19828_xen_fc16.nasl
2012-12-14 Name : Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2012-19717
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19717_xen_fc17.nasl
2012-12-06 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1540 centos5
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_1540_kernel_centos5.nasl
2012-12-06 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2012:1540-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_1540-01_kernel.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-06-12 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0068.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-0470-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-0446-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2012-1606-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2012-0058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2012-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2012-0056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1450.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-311.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-310.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-870.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-869.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
2013-08-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1166-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-22 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1540.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1540-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-6723.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-04 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_xen-130313.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_xen-121205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19828.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19717.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19652.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2582.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-07 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20121204_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-07 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-1540.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-05 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_xen-8379.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-05 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-1540.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00051.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00052.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51397
http://secunia.com/advisories/51468
http://secunia.com/advisories/51486
http://secunia.com/advisories/51487
http://secunia.com/advisories/51495
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/11
http://www.osvdb.org/88131
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56797
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80482
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