CVE-2012-4544

Name	CVE-2012-4544
Description	The PV domain builder in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not validate the size of the kernel or ramdisk (1) before or (2) after decompression, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (domain 0 memory consumption) via a crafted (a) kernel or (b) ramdisk.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2636-1
Debian Bugs	688125

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	4.4.4lts5-0+deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1	fixed
	bullseye	4.14.6-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm	4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	squeeze	4.0.1-5.7		DSA-2636-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.1.3-4	low		688125