CVE-2012-2625

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

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CVSS v3.1

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EPSS

0.92%

probability of exploitation in 30 days

CISA KEV

Not listed

no confirmed exploitation reported

News coverage

sources referencing this CVE

Connections

3 relationships

CWE-20

source

Timeline

disclosure → media coverage

Oct 31, 2012

Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Apr 29, 2026