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xen: denial of service

Package(s):xen CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3433
Created:August 20, 2012 Updated:September 14, 2012
Description: From the Debian advisory:

A guest kernel can cause the host to become unresponsive for a period of time, potentially leading to a DoS. Since an attacker with full control in the guest can impact on the host, this vulnerability is consider with high impact.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2531-1 2012-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11755 2012-08-21
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11785 2012-08-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1043-1 2012-08-27
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1044-1 2012-08-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1174-1 2012-09-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1172-1 2012-09-14
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