CVE-2012-3494
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.004 · 38 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The set_debugreg hypercall in include/asm-x86/debugreg.h in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when running on x86-64 systems, allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) by writing to the reserved bits of the DR7 debug control register.
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affected products (5)
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references (68)
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- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00000.htmlcnnvd
- http://osvdb.org/85197cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50472cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50516cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50530cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50552cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50576cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50625cnnvd
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