CVE-2012-3494
CVE-2012-3494
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This page shows selected source facts. See the linked advisories for the complete description and affected versions.
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.
EPSS 0.4% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50530
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-12_hypercall_set_debugreg_vulnerability
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851139
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50472
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55400
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78265
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
- http://osvdb.org/85197
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027479
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3494