CVE-2012-3516

Name	CVE-2012-3516
Description	The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation in the grant table hypercall in Xen 4.2 and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 allows local guest kernels or administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted grant reference that triggers a write to an arbitrary hypervisor memory location.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch	4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12	fixed
	buster	4.11.4+37-g3263f257ca-1	fixed
	buster (security)	4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2	fixed
	bullseye, sid	4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- xen <not-affected> (Only affects >= 4.2)