CVE-2012-3497 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3497?

CVE-2012-3497 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 23 Nov 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

(1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3497?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3497?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2012-3497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3497 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen

• CVE-2017-10912 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10918 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10920 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-10921 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-27466 Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface Critical 9.8

All Xen Xen vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2012-2497, DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3497, GHSA-vx34-5jq7-vqc8.