| Secunia ID |
SA51798
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2012-6075
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| Release Date |
17 Jan 2013
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| Criticality |
Moderately Critical
Typically used for remotely exploitable Denial of Service vulnerabilities against services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP, and for vulnerabilities that allow system compromises but require user interaction.
This rating is also used for vulnerabilities allowing system compromise on LANs in services like SMB, RPC, NFS, LPD and similar services that are not intended for use over the Internet.
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| Solution Status |
Vendor Workaround
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| Software |
Xen 4.x
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| Where |
From local network
"From local network" describes vulnerabilities where the attack vector requires that an attacker is situated on the same network as a vulnerable system (not necessarily a LAN).
This category covers vulnerabilities in certain services (e.g. DHCP, RPC, administrative services) that should not be accessible from the Internet, but only from a local network and optionally a restricted set of external systems.
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| Impact |
System access
This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.
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| Description |
A vulnerability has been reported in Xen, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. For more information see vulnerability #2 in: SA47740 The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.1.x.
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| Solution |
Fixed in the GIT repository. http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=b0d9ffcd0251161c7c92f94804dcf599dfa3edeb http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c0331f4f7d241995452b99afaf0aab00493334a
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| Original Advisory |
XSA-41: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/16/9
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