Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2012-3516
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.9
EPSS
0.36%
Citrix
Original Filing — NVD Description
The GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref 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 hypervisor memory location.