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CVE-2012-4537

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4537 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Xen versions 3.4 through 4.2, where a failure to synchronize p2m and m2p tables can be triggered by a local HVM guest OS administrator, leading to memory consumption and an assertion failure. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-308.24.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4537Moderate

kernel: xen: Memory mapping failure can crash Xen

Nov 13, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00009.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
lists.xen.org / archives/html/xen-announce/2012-11/msg00005.html
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 87307
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
secunia.com / advisories/51200
secunia.com / advisories/51324
secunia.com / advisories/51352
secunia.com / advisories/51413
secunia.com / advisories/51468
secunia.com / advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80024
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201604-03
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2582
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/6
securityfocus.com / bid/56498
securitytracker.com / id