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Red Hat update for xen


Secunia ID

SA50096

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2625

Release Date

01 Aug 2012

Criticality

Not Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

Local system

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for xen. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA49184

Solution

Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
https://rhn.redhat.com/

Original Advisory

RHSA-2012:1130-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html