CVE-2012-2625 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the PyGrub boot loader within Xen versions 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and unstable builds prior to changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe. A local authenticated para-virtualized guest user can exploit this by providing a large bzip2 or lzma compressed kernel image, leading to excessive memory consumption. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.7 (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating an attack requires local access and authentication, with only a partial denial of service impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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