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CVE-2012-5510

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from...

4.7 MediumFix available

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Exploit likelihood

0.42%Down 1.1 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.7

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
CVE-2012-5510
CVSS 2.0
4.7 MediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
CVE-2012-5510
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-5402 No score

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
EUVD-2012-5402
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9vf6-5gq4-g9w2 No score

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from...

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
GHSA-9vf6-5gq4-g9w2
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
CVE-2012-5510
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2012-5510 No score

Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5510
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 No score

xen-4.7.0_12-1.3 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the xen-4.7.0_12-1.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0940-1 No score

Security update for Xen

This update fixes the following security issues in Xen:

* CVE-2012-5510: Grant table version switch list corruption
  vulnerability (XSA-26)
* CVE-2012-5511: Several HVM operations do not validate the range of
  their inputs (XSA-27)
* CVE-2012-5513: XENMEM_exchange may overwrite hypervisor memory
  (XSA-29)
* CVE-2012-5514: Missing unlock in
  guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand() (XSA-30)
* CVE-2012-5515: Several memory hypercall operations allow invalid
  extent order values (XSA-31)

Also the following fix has been applied:

* bnc#777628 - guest 'disappears' after live migration
  Updated block-dmmd script

Security Issues references:

* CVE-2012-5513
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5513>
* CVE-2012-5514
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5514>
* CVE-2012-5511
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5511>
* CVE-2012-5510
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5510>
* CVE-2012-5515
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5515>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0940-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0944-1 No score

Security update for Xen

XEN has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues:

* 

  CVE-2013-0153: (XSA 36) To avoid an erratum in early hardware, the
  Xen AMD IOMMU code by default choose to use a single interrupt
  remapping table for the whole system. This sharing implied that any
  guest with a passed through PCI device that is bus mastering capable
  can inject interrupts into other guests, including domain 0. This has
  been disabled for AMD chipsets not capable of it.

* 

  CVE-2012-6075: qemu: The e1000 had overflows under some conditions,
  potentially corrupting memory.

* 

  CVE-2013-0154: (XSA 37) Hypervisor crash due to incorrect ASSERT
  (debug build only)

* 

  CVE-2012-5634: (XSA-33) A VT-d interrupt remapping source validation
  flaw was fixed.

Also the following bugs have been fixed:

* bnc#805094 - xen hot plug attach/detach fails
* bnc#802690 - domain locking can prevent a live migration from
  completing
* bnc#797014 - no way to control live migrations
      o fix logic error in stdiostream_progress
      o restore logging in xc_save
      o add options to control migration tunables
* bnc#806736: enabling xentrace crashes hypervisor
* Upstream patches from Jan 26287-sched-credit-pick-idle.patch
  26501-VMX-simplify-CR0-update.patch
  26502-VMX-disable-SMEP-when-not-paging.patch
  26516-ACPI-parse-table-retval.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2013-0153-xsa36.patch) 26517-AMD-IOMMU-clear-irtes.patch
  (Replaces CVE-2013-0153-xsa36.patch)
  26518-AMD-IOMMU-disable-if-SATA-combined-mode.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2013-0153-xsa36.patch)
  26519-AMD-IOMMU-perdev-intremap-default.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2013-0153-xsa36.patch) 26526-pvdrv-no-devinit.patch
  26531-AMD-IOMMU-IVHD-special-missing.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2013-0153-xsa36.patch)
* bnc#798188 - Add $network to xend initscript dependencies
* bnc#799694 - Unable to dvd or cdrom-boot DomU after xen-tools update
  Fixed with update to Xen version 4.1.4
* bnc#800156 - L3: HP iLo Generate NMI function not working in XEN
  kernel
* Upstream patches from Jan 26404-x86-forward-both-NMI-kinds.patch
  26427-x86-AMD-enable-WC+.patch
* bnc#793927 - Xen VMs with more than 2 disks randomly fail to start
* Upstream patches from Jan 26332-x86-compat-show-guest-stack-mfn.patch
  26333-x86-get_page_type-assert.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2013-0154-xsa37.patch)
  26340-VT-d-intremap-verify-legacy-bridge.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2012-5634-xsa33.patch) 26370-libxc-x86-initial-mapping-fit.patch
* Update to Xen 4.1.4 c/s 23432
* Update xenpaging.guest-memusage.patch add rule for xenmem to avoid
  spurious build failures
* Upstream patches from Jan 26179-PCI-find-next-cap.patch
  26183-x86-HPET-masking.patch 26188-x86-time-scale-asm.patch
  26200-IOMMU-debug-verbose.patch 26203-x86-HAP-dirty-vram-leak.patch
  26229-gnttab-version-switch.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2012-5510-xsa26.patch) 26230-x86-HVM-limit-batches.patch
  (Replaces CVE-2012-5511-xsa27.patch)
  26231-memory-exchange-checks.patch (Replaces
  CVE-2012-5513-xsa29.patch) 26232-x86-mark-PoD-error-path.patch
  (Replaces CVE-2012-5514-xsa30.patch) 26233-memop-order-checks.patch
  (Replaces CVE-2012-5515-xsa31.patch)
  26235-IOMMU-ATS-max-queue-depth.patch
  26272-x86-EFI-makefile-cflags-filter.patch
  26294-x86-AMD-Fam15-way-access-filter.patch CVE-2013-0154-xsa37.patch
* Restore c/s 25751 in 23614-x86_64-EFI-boot.patch. Modify the EFI
  Makefile to do additional filtering.

Security Issue references:

* CVE-2013-0153
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0153>
* CVE-2012-6075
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6075>
* CVE-2012-5634
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5634>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0944-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Debian:12
before 4.1.3-5
4.1.3-5
xen
Debian:13
before 4.1.3-5
4.1.3-5
xen
Debian:14
before 4.1.3-5
4.1.3-5
xen
Debian:6.0
before 4.0.1-5.5, plus listed versions
4.0.1-24.0.1-44.0.1-54.0.1-5.14.0.1-5.24.0.1-5.34.0.1-5.4
4.0.1-5.5
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.7.0_12-1.3
4.7.0_12-1.3

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2012-5510 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.7) in Xen, published November 22, 2012. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, the 36th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.1.3-5.

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