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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T20:05:12.655Z
Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-3494

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2012-11-23T20:55:03.057
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2012-3494
