Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3494

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-23 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.