xen — security advisory
The (1) memc_save_get_next_page, (2) tmemc_restore_put_page and (3) tmemc_restore_flush_page functions in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 do not check for negative id pools, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was originally published as part of CVE-2012-3497, which was too general; CVE-2012-3497 has been SPLIT into this ID and others.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.1.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-6036
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The (1) memc_save_get_next_page, (2) tmemc_restore_put_page and (3) tmemc_restore_flush_page functions in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 do not check for negative id pools, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was originally published as part of CVE-2012-3497, which was too general; CVE-2012-3497 has been SPLIT into this ID and others.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6036
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.4-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.4-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.1.4-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:37.785475864Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418024,
"published_at": "2012-11-23T20:55:04.493+00:00"
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