CVE-2012-3494

Low

Description

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS2.1
Exploit probability—
ProductCitrix Xenserver
PublishedNov 23, 2012
First seenNov 23, 2012

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
citrix xenserverv ≤ 6.0.2—
xen xen4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0—

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