xen: denial of service
| Package(s): | xen | CVE #(s): | CVE-2012-2625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | August 1, 2012 | Updated: | September 14, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Red Hat advisory:
A flaw was found in the way the pyGrub boot loader handled compressed kernel images. A privileged guest user in a para-virtualized guest (a DomU) could use this flaw to create a crafted kernel image that, when attempting to boot it, could result in an out-of-memory condition in the privileged domain (the Dom0). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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