CVE-2012-3516

The GNTTABOPswapgrantref 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 hyperviso...

Memory corruption

The GNTTABOPswapgrantref 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 hyperviso...

grant table entry swaps have inadequate bounds checking

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The grant table hypercall's GNTTABOPswapgrantref sub-operation does not perform adequate checks on the input grant references. IMPACT A malicious guest kernel or administrator can crash the host. It may be possible for an attacker to swap a valid grant reference, which they...