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CVE-2012-5515

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange...

4.7 MediumFix available

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Exploit likelihood

0.41%Down 1.1 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.7

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
CVE-2012-5515
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

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
CVE-2012-5515
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-5407 No score

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
EUVD-2012-5407
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-h2f3-x3v9-p3c5 No score

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange...

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
GHSA-h2f3-x3v9-p3c5
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
CVE-2012-5515
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2012-5515 No score

The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5515
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
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-PAE
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-PAE-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-PAE-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-debug
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-debug-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-debug-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-debuginfo-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-headers
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-kdump
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-kdump-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-kdump-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-xen
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
before 0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
0:2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.7.0_12-1.3
4.7.0_12-1.3

History

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

In short

CVE-2012-5515 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 0.41%, the 35th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.1.3-5.

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